Quote of the day
I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
Dorothy B. Hughes

Born: August 10, 1904
Died: May 6, 1993 (aged 88)
Bio: Dorothy B. Hughes was an American crime writer and literary critic. Hughes wrote fourteen crime and detective novels, primarily in the hardboiled and noir styles, and is best known for the novels In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse.
Known for:
- The Expendable Man (1963)
- In a Lonely Place (1947)
- The so blue marble (1940)
- The blackbirder (1943)
- The Davidian report (1952)