Los Angeles,the late 1940's. A serial killer stalks the foggy streets at night...
Dix Steele,a former fighter pilot,moved to L.A. after the war,looking for a new life. But the city is gripped by fear of a murderer in its midst. Dix,however,is not scared. And when he bumps into his old friend Brub,now a detective on the trail of the culprit,he is excited to follow the police's progress. A dark and terrible truth is revealed,in a noir novel like no other.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241639184Number of pages: 240Weight: 179 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 14 mm
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'Dorothy B. Hughes was in a class of her own. To be a female author of hard-boiled fiction back in the 1940s was unusual enough,but to write a first-person narrative from the viewpoint of a male serial killer was breaking new ground by anybody's standards. She marked out this territory years before most other writers even knew it existed.'- Max Decharne,author of Hardboiled Hollywood: The Origins of Great Crime Films
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