The critic HRF Keating chose The Expendable Man as one of his Crime Mystery: The Best Books. A late addition to the thirteen crime stories Dorothy B Hughes wrote with great success in one prolific spell between and , it was, in his view, her best book. But it is far more than a crime novel. Just as her earlier books had engaged with/5(). · The Expendable Man was first published in , when the times were changing, and Hughes provides a glimpse of the rapidly developing Phoenix-Tempe-Scottsdale metropolitan area, an area dramatically different than it is today but not entirely unrecognizable. Because of the way Hughes includes us in her narrative, we’re able to observe and participate in the world she depicts, and if . With The Expendable Man, first published in , Hughes upends the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver a story that engages readers even as it /5().
The Expendable Man. Dorothy B. Hughes. New York Review of Books, Jul 3, - Fiction - pages. 11 Reviews. "It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated, civilized man.". And Hugh Denismore, a young doctor driving his mother's Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix, is eminently educated and. THE EXPENDABLE MAN, Dorothy B. Hughes. A resident at UCLA hospital reluctantly gives a teenager a ride on a deserted road near Phoenix. Right from the beginning, he seems guilty, worried, and we wonder if he perhaps is an unreliable narrator. His actions seems blameless so why the fretting. The Expendable Man twists the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to draw readers into the mystery of the crime, and the mysteries of perhaps the greatest American crime, a crime in which we're all implicated in one way or another. Biography: Dorothy B. Hughes () was an American mystery writer and critic.
For four decades Hughes was the crime-fiction reviewer for The Albuquerque Tribune, earning an Edgar Award for Outstanding Mystery Criticism from the Mystery Writers of America in The Expendable Man, published in , was her last novel. The Expendable Man was first published in , when the times were changing, and Hughes provides a glimpse of the rapidly developing Phoenix-Tempe-Scottsdale metropolitan area, an area dramatically different than it is today but not entirely unrecognizable. Because of the way Hughes includes us in her narrative, we’re able to observe and participate in the world she depicts, and if you’re familiar with Phoenix, you’ll love the details she provides and sweat a little over the society. With The Expendable Man, first published in , Hughes upends the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver a story that engages readers even as it implicates them in the greatest of all American crimes.
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