He is privileged, would seem to have the world at his feet, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him? Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in Arizona a few days later?Dorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir. In books like In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse, she exposed a seething discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity. With The Expendable Man, first published in 1963, Hughes upends the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver a story that engages readers even as it implicates them in the greatest of all American crimes.

    A Chinese detective story starring Judge Dee, who is trapped in a fortified country manor under siege by the Flying Tigers, a gang of bandits.

    Shortly after, Malcolm split from the Nation of Islam.

    A witty, original use of the classic mystery story form, The Maniac Responsible continues the pattern of satire, social comment, and literary excellence set in the first novel that catapulted its author into the front ranks of American writing.Murder mystery and satire on the common folkways of American life, this is also a parable on the twin themes of sex and guilt that haunt the American conscience.-Book Jacket

    This novel is a sensational tale set in a vicious back street world of pimps, prostitutes, and racketeers. It involves a murder by a small-time gangster, racecourse tipsters, the landlady of a pub, three blind St Dunstan's men and the Brighton police.