Dorothy Belle Hughes (1904-May 6, 1993) was a U.S. crime writer and critic. Born Dorothy Belle Flanagan in Kansas City, Missouri, she studied journalism and after graduating worked in that field before becoming a mystery writer. In 1951 she received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America, in the category of Outstanding Mystery Criticism, and in 1978 she was given the MWA's Grand Master award. She made her home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a region she also used as the background for some of her novels. Hughes died in Ashland, Oregon, from complications following a stroke.
Select bibliography
- The So Blue Marble (1940, her first novel)
- The Fallen Sparrow (1942; filmed in 1943)
- The Blackbirder (1943)
- The Delicate Ape (1944)
- Johnnie (1944)
- Dread Journey (1945)
- Ride the Pink Horse (1946; filmed in 1947, remade in 1964 as The Hanged Man)
- In a Lonely Place (1947; filmed in 1950)
- The Davidian Report (aka The Body on the Bench, 1952)
- The Expendable Man (1963)
References
- William L. DeAndrea: Encyclopedia Mysteriosa. A Comprehensive Guide to the Art of Detection in Print, Film, Radio, and Television (New York: Macmillan, 1994).
- http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dbhughes.htm
