The Blue Marble Hughes

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.

The blue marble hughes.

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. The protagonist is griselda former actress current fashion designer for the rich and famous in the glittering world of hollywood. Its mystery is what s the blue marble.

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. 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 is a perfectly art deco suspense novel in which nothing is quite as it seems. Unlike some of dorothy b.

The so blue marble 1940 was the debut novel for dorothy b. While different in style from her later books dorothy b. 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. 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.

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. Like the british library s range these books each feature an introduction giving some context to the work and information about the author. Drenched in the glamour and luxury of the new york elite the so blue marble. It is a bit thriller a bit noir and just a tad bit off the wall.

It s thrills how will our heroine survive it s uniqueness the elimination of threat from deeply warped super rich kids and an avatar of the impending german threat. Is a perfectly art deco suspense novel in which nothing is quite as it seems. 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. Hughes 1904 1993 was a mystery author and literary critic.

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