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DOROTHY B. HUGHES was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and lived most of her life in New Mexico. A journalist and a poet (a book of her verse was published in the Yale Younger Poets Series), she began publishing mystery novels in the 1940s.
The Blackbirder
Afterword by Amy Villarejo
After three years of underground life in Nazi-era Paris, American Julie Guilles is hiding out in New York—when the corpse of an acquaintance appears on her doorstep. With the Gestapo, the FBI, and the New York cops on her tail, she embarks on a desperate journey to Santa Fe. "The Blackbirder" is a legend among refugees, a trafficker in human souls who flies under the radar to bring people to safety across the Mexican border—for a price. In contrast to the typical representations of wartime women as guarding home and hearth, Dorothy B. Hughes gives her intrepid heroine a place at the heart of the action.
"One of crime fiction's finest writers of psychological suspense."
"Hughes is the master we keep returning to."
"A gun molling wordslinger who took it to the tough guys . . . I simply call Hughes one damn good story teller."
The review praises HIS OWN WHERE, calling it a "fantastic book filled with small, unique scenes and daunting poetry."
BASE TEN written by Maryann Lesert has been named Essential Reading by Literary Mama, a reading and literary website for the "maternally inclined."
Maya Nussbaum, executive director of Girls Write Now.
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