In a lonely place

B., Hughes, Dorothy

£9.99

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Dix Steele is back in town, and ‘town’ is post-war LA. His best friend Brub is on the force of the LAPD, and as the two meet in country clubs and beach bars, they discuss the latest case: a strangler is preying on young women in the dark.

ISBN: 9780241639184 Category:

Description

‘The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect’ Daily Telegraph

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.

Additional information

Weight 0.179 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 1.4 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

240

Language

English

Edition

Reprint

Dewey

813.52 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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