TY  - GEN
AU  - Hughes, Dorothy B. 
TI  - In a Lonely Place
T2  - Penguin modern classics : crime & espionage
SN  - 9780241639184 (PB)
PY  - 1975///
CY  - London
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Serial Murder fiction
KW  - Crime Fiction
N2  - Los Angeles in the late 1940s is a city of promise and prosperity, but not for former fighter pilot Dix Steele. To his mind nothing has come close to matching "that feeling of power and exhilaration and freedom that came with loneness in the sky." He prowls the foggy city night--bus stops and stretches of darkened beaches and movie houses just emptying out--seeking solitary young women. His funds are running out and his frustrations are growing. Where is the good life he was promised? Why does he always get a raw deal? Then he hooks up with his old Air Corps buddy Brub, now working for the LAPD, who just happens to be on the trail of the strangler who's been terrorising the women of the city for months
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