The Fallen Sparrow
Published on 14. April 2015
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Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-4719-1731-8 (ISBN)
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Who killed Louie Lepetino?
Was it Barby, with her silvery sheen of hair, looking like a top model and acting like a woman madly in love?
Or the beautiful Toni, who is hiding some strange secrets?
Could it be Otto, a handsome refugee, nicknamed Blue Eyes and an object of attraction for Barby?
Kit, a cop's son, has come back to New York to track down his best buddy's killer. It had to be murder: Louie wasn't the suicidal type. One person stands in the way of his revenge - The Wobblefoot, his unseen nemesis from two terrible years spent in captivity during the Spanish Civil War. He is watching. One false step will mean curtains for Kit. But Kit is willing to take any risk for a friend - even murder in cold blood.
Was it Barby, with her silvery sheen of hair, looking like a top model and acting like a woman madly in love?
Or the beautiful Toni, who is hiding some strange secrets?
Could it be Otto, a handsome refugee, nicknamed Blue Eyes and an object of attraction for Barby?
Kit, a cop's son, has come back to New York to track down his best buddy's killer. It had to be murder: Louie wasn't the suicidal type. One person stands in the way of his revenge - The Wobblefoot, his unseen nemesis from two terrible years spent in captivity during the Spanish Civil War. He is watching. One false step will mean curtains for Kit. But Kit is willing to take any risk for a friend - even murder in cold blood.
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English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Paperback (UK-B)
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Height: 128 mm
Width: 200 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
174 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4719-1731-8 (9781471917318)
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Dorothy B. Hughes was an acclaimed crime novelist and literary critic, her style falling into the hard-boiled and noir genres of mystery writing. Born in Kansas City, she studied journalism at the University of Missouri, and her initial literary output consisted of collections of poetry. Hughes' first mystery novel, The So Blue Marble, was published in 1940 and was hailed as the arrival of a great new talent in the field. Her writing proved to be both critically and commercially successful, and three of her novels - The Fallen Sparrow, Ride the Pink Horse and In a Lonely Place - were made into major films. Hughes' taught, suspenseful detective novels are reminiscent of the work of Elisabeth Sanxay Holding and fellow The Murder Room author Margaret Millar. In 1951, Hughes was awarded an Edgar award for Outstanding Mystery Criticism and, in 1978, she received the Grand Master award from the Mystery Writers of America. She died in Oregon in 1993.