There are two books Weinman wants to emulate, copy, steal from. One is “In a Lonely Place” by Dorothy B. Hughes. The other is “The Late Man” by James Preston Girard who expertly combined the elements of a good crime novel with nuanced psychological depth.
Schlagwort-Archive: Dorothy B. Hughes
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One can read too much into an author’s dedication, but the one Dorothy B. Hughes used for her novel “The Fallen Sparrow” is as telling in what it doesn’t say as it is in what it does: “For Eric Ambler / (…) / somewhere in England/ because he has no book this year.”
Kurzrezensionen: Flynn, Hughes, Millar, Highsmith, Lippman and others
Sarah Weinman’s summer reading list: smart crime fiction by Gillian Flynn (“Gone Girl”), Dorothy B. Hughes (“In a Lonely Place”), Margaret Millar (“Beast in View”), Patricia Highsmith (“Deep Water”) Laura Lippman (“And When She Was Good”) and others.