The Blue Marble Hughes

One night while returning to her ex husband s east side apartment where she is staying she is accosted by two frightening young men who demand that she give them the blue marble what follows.

The blue marble hughes.

Drenched in the glamour and luxury of the new york elite the so blue marble is a perfectly art deco suspense novel in which nothing is quite as it seems. Hughes s debut highlights her greatest strengths as an author rendered with both the poetic language and the psychology of fear for which she is known today. Hughes s darker noir fiction that i ve read see my review of ride the pink horse the so blue marble is more lighthearted and plot driven sometimes ridiculously so. As more than one reviewer here has noted there is a curiously implausible comic book like quality to the characters and storyline i half expected superman to come bursting through the wall but hughes keeps the reader engaged with so many twists and turns that this short 180 page pulp romp.

It is a bit thriller a bit noir and just a tad bit off the wall. Pages can include considerable notes in pen or highlighter but the notes cannot obscure the text. At thriftbooks our motto is. Is a perfectly art deco suspense novel in which nothing is quite as it seems.

While different in style from her later books dorothy b. Hughes s debut highlights her greatest strengths as an author rendered with both the poetic language and the psychology of fear for which she is known today. Drenched in the glamour and luxury of the new york elite the so blue marble. Hughes the so blue marble is one of six vintage titles that were chosen by otto penzler to launch his new american mystery classics range.

Hughes 1904 1993 was a mystery author and literary critic. Drenched in the glamour and luxury of the new york elite the so blue marble is a perfectly art deco suspense novel in which nothing is quite as it seems. Its mystery is what s the blue marble. The so blue marble 1940 was the debut novel for dorothy b.

The so blue marble by hughes dorothy b. While different in style from her later books dorothy b. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. While different in style from her later books dorothy b.

Like the british library s range these books each feature an introduction giving some context to the work and information about the author. Born in kansas city she studied at columbia university and won an award from the yale series of younger poets for her first book the poetry collection dark certainty 1931. Hughes s debut highlights her greatest strengths as an author rendered with both the poetic language and the psychology of fear for which she is known today. Unlike some of dorothy b.

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