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- The Murder Room
- The Murder Room
New York, Art & design styles: Art Deco, Fiction, Crime & mystery, Classic crime
Superb Art Deco suspense set in the glamorous world of high society New York from 'An author with a flair for terror' The New Yorker
'If you wake up in the night screaming with terror, don't say we didn't warn you' New York Times
Once the dashing, top-hatted twins, Danny and David, who share nice college boy laughs, have the marble, they will do to Griselda what they have done to the others.
Her estranged husband, Con, is a thousand miles away, and can't save her.
A bloody trail has wound around the so blue marble: years of theft, torture, violence; whispers of secret riches, gold, diamonds, rubies as big as the moon. Soon it would be Griselda's turn.
But Griselda believes that nothing ever happens to nice people, and that there is no reason to feel nervous at night, not even in the heart of New York, and knowing what she does about the marble . . .
Praise for The So Blue Marble
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The debut by one of the great American suspense writers will suck you in even as it makes you keep asking, "Did I just read that?" - KIRKUS starred review
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Non-stop action, with menace and daring exploits bursting through the smooth veneer of upper-class life...Readers new to this forgotten classic are in for a treat - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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[Hughes's] novels are carefully crafted pieces, ahead of their time in their use of psychological suspense and their piercing observations about class and race. She was among the best
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You will have to read [The So Blue Marble] for yourself, and if you wake up in the night screaming with terror, don't say we didn't warn you - NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF BOOKS
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Extraordinary ... Hughes's brilliant descriptive powers make and unmake reality - NEW YORKER
Dorothy B. Hughes
Dorothy B. Hughes was an acclaimed crime novelist and literary critic, her style falling into the hard-boiled and noir genres of mystery writing. Born in Kansas City, she studied journalism at the University of Missouri, and her initial literary output consisted of collections of poetry. Hughes' first mystery novel, The So Blue Marble, was published in 1940 and was hailed as the arrival of a great new talent in the field. Her writing proved to be both critically and commercially successful, and three of her novels - The Fallen Sparrow, Ride the Pink Horse and In a Lonely Place - were made into major films. Hughes' taught, suspenseful detective novels are reminiscent of the work of Elisabeth Sanxay Holding and fellow The Murder Room author Margaret Millar. In 1951, Hughes was awarded an Edgar award for Outstanding Mystery Criticism and, in 1978, she received the Grand Master award from the Mystery Writers of America. She died in Oregon in 1993.
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