The So Blue Marble (Black Dagger Crime) - Hardcover
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An actress finds herself caught between her ex-husband and a pair of murderous twins
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.
An actress finds herself caught between her ex-husband and a pair of murderous twins
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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Dorothy B. Hughes (1904-1993) was a mystery author, award-winning poet, and literary critic. She published fourteen novels, the best known of which are In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse. Both were made into successful films. Her work had a major influence on other mystery writers of the postwar era, and the movies they inspired remain among the most respected of their genre. She was especially influential on the next two generations of female mystery writers. In the early 1950s, she largely stopped writing fiction, preferring to focus on criticism. She reviewed mysteries for the Los Angeles Times, New York Herald Tribune, and other papers and earned an Edgar Award for Outstanding Mystery Criticism. In 1978, the Mystery Writers of America presented her with the Grand Master Award for literary achievement.
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''You will have to read [The So Blue Marble] for yourself, and if you wake up in the night screaming with terror, don't say we didn't warn you.'' --New York Times Book Review
''Extraordinary . . . [Hughes'] brilliant descriptive powers make and unmake reality.'' --New Yorker ''[Hughes'] novels are carefully crafted pieces, ahead of their time in their use of psychological suspense and their piercing observations about class and race.'' --Walter Mosley, New York Times bestselling author
''Extraordinary . . . [Hughes'] brilliant descriptive powers make and unmake reality.'' --New Yorker ''[Hughes'] novels are carefully crafted pieces, ahead of their time in their use of psychological suspense and their piercing observations about class and race.'' --Walter Mosley, New York Times bestselling author
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- PublisherPrescott Pr
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0862207096
- ISBN 13 9780862207090
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages160
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First edition thus. [viii], 181pp. Fresh, clean copy, appears unread: text pages slightly toned. Firm in the original black cloth-textured binding, spine titled gilt. Bright, corners all good, head of upper joint slightly compressed. In the protected crisp, bright and fresh unclipped dust jacket, head of upper joint bent. Lovely copy. A book first published in 1940, here re-published with the recommendation of the Crime Writers' Association. Seller Inventory # 19872040
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