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Loading... The Expendable Man (New York Review Books Classics) (original 1963; edition 2012)by Dorothy B. Hughes (Author), Walter Mosley (Afterword)
Work InformationThe Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes (1963)
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Fiction.
African American Fiction.
Literature.
Mystery.
HTML: "It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated, civilized man." And Hugh Denismore, a young doctor driving his mother's Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix, is eminently educated and civilized. 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? No library descriptions found. |
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