Ride the Pink Horse
DOROTHY B. HUGHES was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1904. She lived and worked for the majority of her life in New Mexico, writing fourteen crime and mystery novels, of which three were successfully adapted for the screen: The Fallen Sparrow starring John Garfield, Ride the Pink Horse, directed by Robert Montgomery, and In a Lonely Place, starring Humphrey Bogart. She died in 1993.