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Ride the Pink Horse
By Dorothy B. HughesPublisher Description
During the annual Fiesta, three desperate men converge in a perilous New Mexico town in this “extraordinary” crime novel (The New Yorker).
It takes four days for Sailor to travel to New Mexico by bus. He arrives broke, sweaty, and ready to get what’s his. It’s the annual Fiesta, and the locals burn an effigy of Zozobra so that their troubles follow the mythical character into the fire. But for former senator Willis Douglass, trouble is just beginning.
It takes four days for Sailor to travel to New Mexico by bus. He arrives broke, sweaty, and ready to get what’s his. It’s the annual Fiesta, and the locals burn an effigy of Zozobra so that their troubles follow the mythical character into the fire. But for former senator Willis Douglass, trouble is just beginning.
Sailor was Willis’s personal secretary when his wife died in an apparent robbery-gone-wrong. Only Sailor knows it was Willis who ordered her murder, and he’s agreed to keep his mouth shut in exchange for a little bit of cash. On Sailor’s tail is a cop who wants the senator for more than a payoff. As Fiesta rages on, these three men will circle one another in a dance of death, as they chase truth, money, and revenge.
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“Not my cup of tea.... En ik ben ook vergeten waarom ik dit boek ben gaan luisteren. Het stond hoog op mijn ‘boekenplank’, maar kon het niet terugvinden in één van mijn groepen, maar mijn boekenadministratie is momenteel even een ramp. Verandert niets aan het feit dat ik even klaar ben met misdaadromans van 70 jaar geleden. Overkill gehad, denk ik.”
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“Amazing book- loved it to death. totally noir-ish, unrelenting trip to Fiesta in Santa Fe (I think). The protagonist arrives in town with everything entirely booked up, so he must wander around in the heat with the crowds for days and days with no room. He is looking for "the sen" (senator) for whom he has done bad deeds. But now he has something on the sen and plans to collect lots of dough and start over in Mexico. A cop is on their trail and it doesn't end well. The magic of the book is the endless wandering around - without a direction- interacting with natives, as we slowly get to know all about the character.”
About Dorothy B. Hughes
Dorothy B. Hughes (1904–1993) was a mystery author and literary critic. Born in Kansas City, she studied at Columbia University, and won an award from the Yale Series of Younger Poets for her first book, the poetry collection Dark Certainty (1931). After writing several unsuccessful manuscripts, she published The So Blue Marble in 1940. A New York–based mystery, it won praise for its hardboiled prose, which was due, in part, to Hughes’s editor, who demanded she cut 25,000 words from the book.
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