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The So Blue Marble
By Dorothy B. HughesPublisher Description
A “delightful . . . nonstop action” thriller from the author of In a Lonely Place—“readers new to this forgotten classic are in for a treat” (Publishers Weekly).
At the age of twenty-four, Griselda Satterlee has already lived two lifetimes. A star of the silver screen, she gives up Hollywood after a year, and moves to New York to become a designer. While her ex-husband, Con, is out of town, she is staying in his apartment. Walking back one night, she meets two cheerful young men who want to go home with her—and won’t take no for an answer.
David and Danny are twins, and they are the most beautiful men Griselda has ever seen. They are also the most dangerous. They want something from her: a lustrous blue marble, which they insist is in Con’s apartment. Though they leave without hurting her, Griselda knows that next time, they won’t be so amiable. To save herself, she must discover the secret of the marble—a secret with death at its core.
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“Gee- Dorothy Hughes really let me down with this one. Yes, it is a 1st book, but Ride the Pink Horse and In a lonely place are so so good. And on the bright side, she does convey a bright, chirpy, nervous quality to the mood of this book - but... it is a thin covering of the awful plot of the mysterious, charming twins who bedevil our lead Griselda and everyone they come in to contact with. but she she can't go to the police as person after person is bumped off- because..... why again? something to do with putting Con at risk ... the same goes with everyone else ... so beguiled and frightened are we of those twins! and her 16 year sister Missy- she's a spooky one right? eh, not so much ... just an oddball with a vicious streak. What is going on, Ms. Hughes. Ack ack ack. It's bad.”
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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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