Dolores Hitchens – författare

Two teenagers fresh out of stir set their sights on what looks like easy money in Dolores Hitchens’s Fools’ Gold (1958)—and get a painful education in how quickly and drastically a simple plan can spin out of control. The basis for Jean-Luc Godard’s film Band of Outsiders, Fools’ Gold is a sharply told tale distinguished by its nuanced portrait of a sheltered young woman who becomes a reluctant accomplice and fugitive. This classic novel is one of eight works included in The Library of America''s two-volume edition Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s, edited by Sarah Weinman.

"It had been timed and planned perfectly.” A convicted killer and the detective escorting him to prison aboard a Pullman train are the victims of a mysterious double assassination. When the detective is posthumously accused of corruption and criminal conspiracy, his widow embarks on a campaign to clear him, and soon finds herself enmeshed in an ever more complex web of deception and violent danger. Master suspense writer Dolores Hitchens sustains an atmosphere in which no one, whatever their social class or walk of life, is entirely to be trusted.

“Are you trying to tell me you don’t want the job, Mr. Sader?”: It started as a missing persons case and grew more puzzling with the discovery of another strangely coincidental disappearance. Private eye Jim Sader finds himself deep in a multilayered intrigue revolving around oil and real estate and the sleazy underpinnings of Long Beach, California, in the 1950s. Many consider this Dolores Hitchens’ best novel.

“The fact is that during the last year I have killed three young people”: A pleasant waterfront community in California is subjected to a series of seemingly random killings, the victims all children. Dolores Hitchens’ intricately plotted novel explores a town’s collective terror, as the inhabitants slowly come to realize that one of their neighbors is engaged in a terrible and protracted campaign of murder for motives impossible to guess. The Watcher expertly explores the resulting mood of anguish and mutual suspicion, and the vulnerability of the young people who are the inexplicable targets of violent evil.

"You’re playing with a child’s life”: The search for a kidnapped boy leads private detective (and ex-alcoholic) Jim Sader through a labyrinth of well-hidden family secrets and into the heart of an elaborate and malevolent deception. Sleep with a Slander is a novel in the classic hardboiled tradition, tough, compassionate, and tautly told.

LA PIONERA DEL SUSPENSE DOMÉSTICO TRADUCIDA POR PRIMERA VEZ AL ESPAÑOL «Una hábil narradora, cuyos misterios merecen ser revisitados. Debajo de la superficie narrativa, rápida como un torrente, subyace una profunda y trágica sabiduría.» Del prólogo de Joyce Carol Oates «Nunca se arrepentirá de haber conocido a la señorita Rachel Murdock.» The New York Times «Un atractivo antecedente de Jessica Fletcher.» Publishers Weekly Una anciana aficionada a los misterios, una joven asesinada y un único testigo: la gata. A sus 70 años no hay muchas cosas que disturben a Rachel Murdock. De ahí que cuando su sobrina Lily le pide que pase unos días con ella, Rachel no se lo piensa dos veces y se pone en camino, acompañada de su gata Samantha.  La sobrina las recibe con vaguedades que, poco a poco, dejan entrever que está en serios apuros. Mientras Rachel intenta ayudar, alguien la droga y pierde el conocimiento. Al despertar, su sobrina está muerta y la gata ha sido la única que ha visto qué ha ocurrido. Rachel no tardará en comenzar a unir las piezas del misterio que se despliega frente a ella.  Un clásico estadounidense que inauguró las novelas de misterio felinas. Una historia inteligente y entretenida, llena de sutilezas que contienen la solución del rompecabezas.