3.5
Sleep with Strangers
ByPublisher Description
Rediscover one of America’s pioneering women crime writers with this classic noir starring a Long Beach private investigator reminiscent of Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe
“Are you trying to tell me you don't want the job, Mr. Sader?”
It started as a missing persons case and grew more puzzling with the discovery of another strangely coincidental disappearance. Private eye Jim Sader finds himself deep in a multilayered intrigue revolving around oil and real estate and the sleazy underpinnings of Long Beach, California, in the 1950s.
Taut, suspenseful, and gritty, many consider Sleep with Strangers to be Dolores Hitchens’ best novel.
“Are you trying to tell me you don't want the job, Mr. Sader?”
It started as a missing persons case and grew more puzzling with the discovery of another strangely coincidental disappearance. Private eye Jim Sader finds himself deep in a multilayered intrigue revolving around oil and real estate and the sleazy underpinnings of Long Beach, California, in the 1950s.
Taut, suspenseful, and gritty, many consider Sleep with Strangers to be Dolores Hitchens’ best novel.
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3.5
Matt Swanson
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“One of the best LA detective noirs I have read. Understated compared to Raymond Chandler and many other genre classic authors. Curious to read more Dolores Hitchens, amzing author that is relatively buried in the history of the 1950s-1960s.”
Janelle
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“This is a good old fashioned detective thriller from 1955. Jim Sader is a private eye asked to investigate a missing woman by her daughter Kay (who speaks in “breathless murmurs”!). His partner Dan is investigating a missing husband, coincidentally both cases went missing on the same day. I enjoyed the writing and the set up of the mystery, clues are revealed and they don’t always add up. The whole thing is rounded up in a satisfying way. It is dated, some of the descriptions certainly wouldn’t been seen these days but it doesn’t detract from an entertaining read.”
Efbeckett
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“Nothing wrong with this, but my least favourite Hitchens that I've read. I think the problem is that here she's adopting a generic hard-boiled detective voice. It's nowhere near as distinctive as her less formulaic fiction like Fool's Gold or, my favourite, The Watcher, which both contain multiple narrative points of view, which makes their fictional world richer and more exciting. I'll still read the second book in this series, but with less anticipation than I have her other books.”
About Dolores Hitchens
Dolores Hitchens (1907-1973) was a highly prolific author of novels and a play who wrote under several names, best known for a number of detective series including the Jim Sader novels and the "Cat" novels featuring elderly amateur sleuth Rachel Murdock. She was one of eight pioneers in the genre collected in the 2015 Library of America edition, Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s.
Steph Cha is the author of Your House Will Pay and the Juniper Song crime trilogy. She's an editor and critic whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. A native of the San Fernando Valley, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two basset hounds.
Steph Cha is the author of Your House Will Pay and the Juniper Song crime trilogy. She's an editor and critic whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. A native of the San Fernando Valley, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two basset hounds.
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