![]() ![]() ![]() She published eight more mystery novels in the 1940s. In 1940, she published her first mystery novel, The So Blue Marble. Hughes's first published book, Dark Certainty (1931), a volume of poetry, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. She did graduate work in journalism at the University of New Mexico and at Columbia University without receiving degrees from either institution. degree in 1924 worked in that field in Missouri, New Mexico, and New York. ![]() Hughes wrote fourteen crime and detective novels, primarily in the hardboiled and noir styles, and is best known for the novels In a Lonely Place (1947) and Ride the Pink Horse (1946).īorn Dorothy Belle Flanagan in Kansas City, Missouri, she studied journalism and after graduating from the University of Missouri with a B.J. Hughes (Aug– May 6, 1993) was an American crime writer, literary critic, and historian. ![]()
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