num_pages: 214
description: Dix had it all: women, expensive clothes, Mel's swanky apartment, his car, even his gold-tipped cigarette lighter. But the easy life left Dix cold. Then a series of sex murders flared across the headlines and lit his curiosity. It thrilled Dix to risk everything by joining the hunt. Tracking a killer was the most amusing game he'd ever played.A beauty with red-gold hair and a sultry copper mouth, and an old friend turned hard-nosed L.A. cop are leading characters in this dazzling mystery. The New Yorker has called Dorothy B. Hughes "an author with a flair for terror." In a Lonely Place has shattering suspense and a swift, arresting climax.
language: English
title: In a Lonely Place
titlecomplete: In a Lonely Place
characters: Laurel Gray, Dix Steele
genres: Mystery Thriller, Noir, Suspense, Thriller, Crime, American, Novels, Fiction, Classics, Mystery
ratings_count: 6396
publisher: Bantam