The Right to Murder
Gaby Wood: ‘In a Lonely Place’, 22 March 2018
In a Lonely Place
by Dorothy B. Hughes.
NYRB, 224 pp., $14.95, August 2017,978 1 68137 147 4 Show More
by Dorothy B. Hughes.
NYRB, 224 pp., $14.95, August 2017,
“... have been better, but I don’t see why the rest should worry you.’ Enter his alibi: Laurel Gray, a neighbour who saw him come home with Atkinson. At the threshold of the captain’s office she raises an eyebrow, just slightly, and over the next few moments it becomes clear that, for the purposes of irascible romance, Dix and she are the same ... ”