Picture 1 of 1
Dorothy B. Hughes The Expendable Man (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
Another great item from Rarewaves | Free delivery!
Condition:
More than 10 available
Shipping:
Located in: GU14 0GT, United Kingdom
Delivery:
Varies
Returns:
Payments:
Shop with confidence
Seller information
- 98.4% positive feedback
Registered as a Business Seller
Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing.
eBay item number:275957626928
Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- Expendable Man
- Publication Name
- The Expendable Man
- Title
- The Expendable Man
- Contributor
- Walter Mosley (Afterword by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 159017495X
- EAN
- 9781590174951
- ISBN
- 9781590174951
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Thrillers / Suspense, Mystery & Detective / General, African American / Urban
- Release Date
- 03/07/2012
- Release Year
- 2012
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Width
- 5.1in
- Item Weight
- 9.8 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Number of Pages
- 264 Pages
About this product
Product Information
"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 civilized. He is privileged, would seem to have the world at his feet, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him? Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in Arizona a few days later? Dorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir. In books like In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse she exposed a seething discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity. With The Expendable Man , first published in 1963, 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
159017495x
ISBN-13
9781590174951
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7038532318
Product Key Features
Book Title
Expendable Man
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Thrillers / Suspense, Mystery & Detective / General, African American / Urban
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
9.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3515.U268e96 2012
Reviews
"Puts Chandler to shame . . . Hughes is the master we keep turning to."-Sara Paretsky, author of the V. I. Warshawski novels "You are rocked back by Ms. Hughes some fifty pages into her story, and I can certify that the effect is truly rocking. You even read past the vital word, just one word in a sentence of swift dialogue, before you realize what it has said, and what a new and different light it casts on everything you have read up to that moment." -H. R. F Keating "A mystery writer who. . . in America was regarded as one of the great names of detective fiction. . . . Her real talent lay in an ability to create atmospheres of growing apprehension and fear, a very modern approach at a time when Agatha Christie was producing her comparatively predictable puzzles. . . . Her last, and some consider her best, work of fiction was The Expendable Man ." - The Times (London) "Let me say that it is Mrs. Hughes' finest work . . . of unusual stature both as a suspense story and as a straight novel and nowise to be missed." -Anthony Boucher, The New York Times "The suspense twist makes this tale a stand-out." - Saturday Review "To read The Expendable Man today is to experience a mature work by a mistress of her craft." - Dominic Power "A surprise-twist gasper about a young doc who picks up a sick chick and gets framed by a hack dick for her kill" - Time "One of crime fiction's finest writers of psychological suspense." -Marcia Miller, author of the Sharon McCone novels "This lady is the queen of noir. . ." -Laurie R. King, author of the Mary Russell novels "Nobody but Dorothy Hughes can cast suspense into such an uncanny spell . . ." - San Francisco Chronicle "A gun molling wordslinger who took it to the tough guys . . . I simply call Hughes one damn good story teller." -John Hood, Bully Magazine, " The Expendable Man is one of the great trick novels of crime fiction. Yet to call it that is to belittle it. Its trick is no clever, superimposed bit of literary legerdemain: it is integral to the whole conception of the book. . . . A fine achievement." --H. R. F. Keating, Crime and Mystery: The 100 Best Books "Hughes didn't just pre-date Jim Thompson, she also pre-dated Patricia Highsmith, Ruth Rendell, and other so-called Masters of Psychological Suspense or Noir. And her writing style stands up to the test of time." --Sarah Weinman, Bookslut "Puts Chandler to shame . . . Hughes is the master we keep turning to."--Sara Paretsky, author of the V. I. Warshawski novels "You are rocked back by Ms. Hughes some fifty pages into her story, and I can certify that the effect is truly rocking. You even read past the vital word, just one word in a sentence of swift dialogue, before you realize what it has said, and what a new and different light it casts on everything you have read up to that moment." --H. R. F Keating "A mystery writer who. . . in America was regarded as one of the great names of detective fiction. . . . Her real talent lay in an ability to create atmospheres of growing apprehension and fear, a very modern approach at a time when Agatha Christie was producing her comparatively predictable puzzles. . . . Her last, and some consider her best, work of fiction was The Expendable Man ." -- The Times (London) "Let me say that it is Mrs. Hughes' finest work . . . of unusual stature both as a suspense story and as a straight novel and nowise to be missed." --Anthony Boucher, The New York Times "The suspense twist makes this tale a stand-out." -- Saturday Review "To read The Expendable Man today is to experience a mature work by a mistress of her craft." -- Dominic Power "A surprise-twist gasper about a young doc who picks up a sick chick and gets framed by a hack dick for her kill" -- Time "One of crime fiction's finest writers of psychological suspense." --Marcia Miller, author of the Sharon McCone novels "This lady is the queen of noir. . ." --Laurie R. King, author of the Mary Russell novels "Nobody but Dorothy Hughes can cast suspense into such an uncanny spell . . ." -- San Francisco Chronicle "A gun molling wordslinger who took it to the tough guys . . . I simply call Hughes one damn good story teller." --John Hood, Bully Magazine, " The Expendable Man is one of the great trick novels of crime fiction. Yet to call it that is to belittle it. Its trick is no clever, superimposed bit of literary legerdemain: it is integral to the whole conception of the book. . . . A fine achievement." --H. R. F. Keating, Crime and Mystery: The 100 Best Books "Hughes didn't just pre-date Jim Thompson, she also pre-dated Patricia Highsmith, Ruth Rendell, and other so-called Masters of Psychological Suspense or Noir. And her writing style stands up to the test of time." --Sarah Weinman, Bookslut "Puts Chandler to shame . . . Hughes is the master we keep turning to."--Sara Paretsky, author of the V. I. Warshawski novels "You are rocked back by Ms. Hughes some fifty pages into her story, and I can certify that the effect is truly rocking. You even read past the vital word, just one word in a sentence of swift dialogue, before you realize what it has said, and what a new and different light it casts on everything you have read up to that moment." --H. R. F Keating "A mystery writer who. . . in America was regarded as one of the great names of detective fiction. . . . Her real talent lay in an ability to create atmospheres of growing apprehension and fear, a very modern approach at a time when Agatha Christie was producing her comparatively predictable puzzles. . . . Her last, and some consider her best, work of fiction was The Expendable Man ." -- The Times (London) "Let me say that it is Mrs. Hughes' finest work . . . of unusual stature both as a suspense story and as a straight novel and nowise to be missed." --Anthony Boucher, The New York Times "The suspense twist makes this tale a stand-out." -- Saturday Review "To read The Expendable Man today is to experience a mature work by a mistress of her craft." -- Dominic Power "A surprise-twist gasper about a young doc who picks up a sick chick and gets framed by a hack dick for her kill" -- Time "One of crime fiction's finest writers of psychological suspense." --Marcia Miller, author of the Sharon McCone novels "This lady is the queen of noir. . ." --Laurie R. King, author of the Mary Russell novels "Nobody but Dorothy Hughes can cast suspense into such an uncanny spell . . ." -- San Francisco Chronicle "A gun molling wordslinger who took it to the tough guys . . . I simply call Hughes one damn good story teller." --John Hood, Bully Magazine, " The Expendable Man is one of the great trick novels of crime fiction. Yet to call it that is to belittle it. Its trick is no clever, superimposed bit of literary legerdemain: it is integral to the whole conception of the book. . . . A fine achievement." -H. R. F. Keating, Crime and Mystery: The 100 Best Books "Hughes didn't just pre-date Jim Thompson, she also pre-dated Patricia Highsmith, Ruth Rendell, and other so-called Masters of Psychological Suspense or Noir. And her writing style stands up to the test of time." -Sarah Weinman, Bookslut "Puts Chandler to shame . . . Hughes is the master we keep turning to."-Sara Paretsky, author of the V. I. Warshawski novels "You are rocked back by Ms. Hughes some fifty pages into her story, and I can certify that the effect is truly rocking. You even read past the vital word, just one word in a sentence of swift dialogue, before you realize what it has said, and what a new and different light it casts on everything you have read up to that moment." -H. R. F Keating "A mystery writer who. . . in America was regarded as one of the great names of detective fiction. . . . Her real talent lay in an ability to create atmospheres of growing apprehension and fear, a very modern approach at a time when Agatha Christie was producing her comparatively predictable puzzles. . . . Her last, and some consider her best, work of fiction was The Expendable Man ." - The Times (London) "Let me say that it is Mrs. Hughes' finest work . . . of unusual stature both as a suspense story and as a straight novel and nowise to be missed." -Anthony Boucher, The New York Times "The suspense twist makes this tale a stand-out." - Saturday Review "To read The Expendable Man today is to experience a mature work by a mistress of her craft." - Dominic Power "A surprise-twist gasper about a young doc who picks up a sick chick and gets framed by a hack dick for her kill" - Time "One of crime fiction's finest writers of psychological suspense." -Marcia Miller, author of the Sharon McCone novels "This lady is the queen of noir. . ." -Laurie R. King, author of the Mary Russell novels "Nobody but Dorothy Hughes can cast suspense into such an uncanny spell . . ." - San Francisco Chronicle "A gun molling wordslinger who took it to the tough guys . . . I simply call Hughes one damn good story teller." -John Hood, Bully Magazine
Copyright Date
2012
Target Audience
Trade
Afterword by
Mosley, Walter
Lccn
2011-043843
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Dewey Edition
23
Item description from the seller
Business seller information
Value Added Tax Number:
- GB 864 1548 11
Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing.
eBay item number:275957626928
Shipping and handling
Item does not ship to United States
Item location:
GU14 0GT, United Kingdom
Ships to:
Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Americas, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Asia, Azerbaijan Republic, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Europe, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Fiji, Finland, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of Croatia, Republic of the Congo, Reunion, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Sweden, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S.), Wallis and Futuna, Western Sahara, Western Samoa, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Excludes:
Afghanistan, Australia, Austria, Belarus, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Libya, Nauru, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Somalia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Yemen
| Handling time |
|---|
| Will usually ship within 7 business days of receiving cleared payment. |
| Taxes |
|---|
| Taxes may be applicable at checkout. Learn moreLearn more about paying tax on eBay purchases |
Sales tax for an item #275957626928
Sales tax for an item #275957626928
Seller collects sales tax for items shipped to the following provinces:
| Province | Sales Tax Rate |
|---|
Return policy
| After receiving the item, contact seller within |
|---|
| 30 days after the buyer receives it |
The buyer is responsible for return shipping costs.
Payment details
Payment methods
Popular categories from this store
Seller feedback (182,728)
u***n (38)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past 6 months
Verified purchase
Product is 95% alike picture but a little more blurry. Controller play well but had a notice from psn that my joypad wasn't authentic and could by problematic🤷♂️ no trouble so far! Shipping was fast but no tracking and worst packaging ever.. like the box came banged up... send a question to seller never had a reply 😅.... Good product overall, excellent price, fast shipping, wrapped only on 4 sides out of 6, no tracking and never reply... 4★ product / 2★ seller ✌️
l***t (120)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past 6 months
Verified purchase
The book is in perfect condition, brand new, and is exactly as described. This item is difficult to find here, and the seller priced it very reasonably. It shipped from the UK to Canada, and unfortunately took a little longer to arrive than the seller hoped, but it was shipped less than 24 hours after I purchased. When I contacted the seller, they were very responsive and helpful. I would not hesitate to purchase from this seller again. Definitely recommend!
s***a (696)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past month
Verified purchase
AAA seller. Item came as described and within the due date. Great communication. Well packed and no damage to the case.
Product ratings and reviews
Most relevant reviews
- Aug 16, 2021
Don’t miss this noir detective story.
Verified purchase: YesCondition: NewSold by: shoppingmadeeasy2
- Aug 08, 2016
The Queen of Noir
Verified purchase: YesCondition: NewSold by: grandeagleretail
- May 12, 2023
The Expendable Man
Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: second.sale