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In a Lonely Place
by Dorothy B. Hughes
A contemporary of Hammett, Cain and Chandler, Hughes plays in the same sandbox, but turns the misogyny that runs as a subtext through the noir genre on its head. Told through the eyes of the murderer, this taut novel messes with the tropes common to the form. The femme fatale and “good girl”, caricatures treated with contempt in the hands of the other masters of the form, are seen in a different light in Hughes’s world. A brilliant exploration of toxic masculinity before the term was coined, In a Lonely Place deserves an honored place in the annals of noir fiction.