It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated, civilized man.
With The Expendable Man , 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..
In books like In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse she exposed a seething discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity.
Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir.
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? Dorothy B.
He is privileged, would seem to have the world at his feet, even.
And Hugh Denismore, a young doctor driving his mother\'s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix, is eminently educated and civilized.
It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated, civilized man
