In a lonely place

Dorothy B. Hughes First published 1947

About this book

Postwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside—and a stranger is preying on young women. The suggestively named Dix Steele, a cynical vet with a chip on his shoulder about the opposite sex, is the LAPD's top suspect. Dix knows enough to watch his step, especially since his best friend is on the force, but when he meets the luscious Laurel Gray—a femme fatale with brains—something begins to crack.

Subjects

  • 813/.54
  • actresses
  • actresses, fiction
  • american detective and mystery stories
  • crimes against
  • criminals, fiction
  • drifters
  • drifters--fiction
  • fic030000 fic022010
  • fiction
  • fiction, crime
  • fiction in english
  • fiction, mystery & detective, general
  • fiction, psychological
  • large type books
  • los angeles (calif.), fiction
  • ps3515.u268 i5 2017
  • serial murderers
  • serial murderers--fiction
  • young women
  • young women--crimes against
  • young women--crimes against--fiction
  • young women, fiction