Born on this day – Dorothy B. Hughes:

Dorothy B. Hughes

Writer

August 10, 1904 – May 6, 1993

Credits:

Books:

Dark Certainty (1931); Dread Journey (1945); Erle Stanley Gardner (1978); Fifty Best Mysteries (1993); In a Lonely Place (1947); Johnnie (1944); Mr. President, Private Eye (2004); Ride the Pink Horse (1946); The Bamboo Blonde (1941); The Blackbirder (1943); The Candy Kid (1950); The Cross Eyed Bear Murders (1940); The Davidian Report (1952); The Delicate Ape (1944); The Expendable Man (1963); The Fallen Sparrow (1942); The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1999); The Scarlet Imperial (1946); The So Blue Marble (1940).

Movies and television:

The Hanged Man (1964); Destry (1964); Bourbon Street Beat (1960); Climax! (1958); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950–1952); In a Lonely Place (1950); Ride the Pink Horse (1947); The Corpse Came C.O.D. (1947); Follow the Boys (1944); The Fallen Sparrow (1943).