{"product_id":"the-expendable-man-paperback","title":"The Expendable Man - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDorothy B. Hughes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eWalter Mosley\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated, civilized man.\" And Hugh Denismore, a young doctor driving his mother's Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged, would seem to have the world at his feet, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him? Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in Arizona a few days later? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir. In books like\u003ci\u003e In a Lonely Place\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRide the Pink Horse\u003c\/i\u003e she exposed a seething discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity. With \u003ci\u003eThe Expendable Man\u003c\/i\u003e, first published in 1963, Hughes upends the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver a story that engages readers even as it implicates them in the greatest of all American crimes.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDorothy B. Hughes (1904-1993) was an American mystery writer and critic. Born Dorothy Belle Flanagan in Kansas City, Missouri, she received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and worked as a reporter before attending graduate school at the University of New Mexico and Columbia University. In 1931 her collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003eDark Certainty\u003c\/i\u003e, was selected for inclusion in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. The next year she got married and it was not until 1940 that she published the first of her fourteen mystery novels, \u003ci\u003eThe So Blue Marble\u003c\/i\u003e. For four decades Hughes was the crime-fiction reviewer for\u003ci\u003e The Albuquerque Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, earning an Edgar Award for Outstanding Mystery Criticism from the Mystery Writers of America in 1950. \u003ci\u003eThe Expendable Man\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1963, was her last novel. \"I simply hadn't the tranquility required to write\" while caring for her family, she later said. In 1978, however, she published \u003ci\u003eThe Case of the Real Perry Mason\u003c\/i\u003e, a critical biography of Erle Stanley Gardner, and that same year she was recognized as a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. Among Hughes's best-known books are \u003ci\u003eThe Cross-Eyed Bear\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRide the Pink Horse\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIn a Lonely Place\u003c\/i\u003e (which was made into a movie directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Humphrey Bogart). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWalter Mosley is the author of more than thirty-four books, including the best-selling mystery series featuring Easy Rawlins. Among the many honors he has received are an O. Henry Award, a Grammy, and PEN America's Lifetime Achievement Award.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 8.01 x 5.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 03, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47247089369337,"sku":"9781590174951","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/VTRvaUhGUlAxU1JHcmJKOHFNL0c4QT09.webp?v=1768620883","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-expendable-man-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}