Hughes, Dorothy B
Entry updated 26 August 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1904-1993) US author, active from around 1930, of hard-edged, noirish detective novels. She also wrote one sf novel, The Delicate Ape (1944), which involves international intrigue a decade hence in a Near Future New York, where a defeated Germany has been plotting to gain international approval, at the upcoming "Peace Conclave", for the end of Allied occupation and for the right to re-arm. The threat of World War Three looms, but the conspiracy is defeated. The title refers not to apes but to the nature of Homo sapiens when unleashed. [JC]
Dorothy Belle Hughes
born Kansas City, Missouri: 10 August 1904
died Ashland, Oregon: 6 May 1993
works (highly selected)
- The Delicate Ape (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1944) [hb/]
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