If you have not already done so, I would heartily recommend
"In a
Lonely Place", IMO the best book by Hughes.
Hughes managed to create a dark noir atmosphere in this book
which
still grips nowadays and made me re-read it a few
times.
Moreover the plot is more convincing than some other works by
her
like "Cross-Eyed Bear Murders" or "So Blue Marble" which
stroke me as
quite dated.
It is interesting to see how much of the Lonely Place plot
was
changed for the film version. I read somewhere (it might have
been
the BBC book) that the film company could easily have avoided
to pay
Hughes anything for the film rights if they had added the
small
further alteration of simply changing the protagonists
names.
I would be interested to learn what you think of the film
wich I
think is arguably the most "noir" of all Bogart films (and
my
favourite one).
Frank
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Frank Glenewinkel
frank.glenewinkel@uni-koeln.de
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