The Blue Marble Hughes

While different in style from her later books dorothy b.

The blue marble hughes. Drenched in the glamour and luxury of the new york elite the so blue marble is a perfectly art deco suspense novel in which nothing is quite as it seems. The protagonist is griselda former actress current fashion designer for the rich and famous in the glittering world of hollywood. The so blue marble 1940 was the debut novel for dorothy b. At thriftbooks our motto is.

It is a bit thriller a bit noir and just a tad bit off the wall. Like the british library s range these books each feature an introduction giving some context to the work and information about the author. One night while returning to her ex husband s east side apartment where she is staying she is accosted by two frightening young men who demand that she give them the blue marble what follows. Hughes s debut highlights her greatest strengths as an author rendered with both the poetic language and the psychology of fear for which she is known today.

Read more spend less see all. As more than one reviewer here has noted there is a curiously implausible comic book like quality to the characters and storyline i half expected superman to come bursting through the wall but hughes keeps the reader engaged with so many twists and turns that this short 180 page pulp romp. While different in style from her later books dorothy b. While different in style from her later books dorothy b.

All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Is a perfectly art deco suspense novel in which nothing is quite as it seems. Pages can include considerable notes in pen or highlighter but the notes cannot obscure the text. Drenched in the glamour and luxury of the new york elite the so blue marble.

Unlike some of dorothy b. Hughes the so blue marble is one of six vintage titles that were chosen by otto penzler to launch his new american mystery classics range. After writing several unsuccessful manuscripts she published the so blue marble in 1940. Hughes s darker noir fiction that i ve read see my review of ride the pink horse the so blue marble is more lighthearted and plot driven sometimes ridiculously so.

The so blue marble by hughes dorothy b. Hughes s debut highlights her greatest strengths as an author rendered with both the poetic language and the psychology of fear for which she is known today. Drenched in the glamour and luxury of the new york elite the so blue marble is a perfectly art deco suspense novel in which nothing is quite as it seems. 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.

Hughes s debut highlights her greatest strengths as an author rendered with both the poetic language and the psychology of fear for which she is known today.