Dread Journey, Dorothy B. Hughes
Dread Journey, Dorothy B. Hughes
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Dread Journey

Author: Dorothy B. Hughes

Narrator: Gabrielle de Cuir

Unabridged: 7 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Skyboat Media

Published: 10/07/2014

Synopsis

On a transcontinental train, a starlet fears her director may be trying to kill her.Four years after she arrived in Los Angeles, Kitten Agnew has become a star. Though beautiful and talented, she'd be nowhere without Vivien Spender, Hollywood's most acclaimed director—and its most dangerous. But Kitten knew what she was getting into when she got involved with him; she had heard the stories of Viv's past discoveries. Once he discarded them, they ended up in a chorus line, a sanatorium, or worse. She knows enough of his secrets that he wouldn't dare destroy her career—but he may be willing to kill her.On a train from Los Angeles to Chicago, Kitten learns that Viv is planning to offer her roommate a part that was meant for her. If she lets him betray her, her career will be over. But fight for the part and she will be fighting for her life as well.

About Dorothy B. Hughes

Dorothy B. Hughes (1904–1993) was a mystery author, award-winning poet, and literary critic. She published fourteen novels, the best known of which are In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse. Both were made into successful films. Her work had a major influence on other mystery writers of the postwar era, and the movies they inspired remain among the most respected of their genre. She was especially influential on the next two generations of female mystery writers. In the early 1950s, she largely stopped writing fiction, preferring to focus on criticism. She reviewed mysteries for the Los Angeles Times, New York Herald Tribune, and other papers and earned an Edgar Award for Outstanding Mystery Criticism. In 1978 the Mystery Writers of America presented her with the Grand Master Award for literary achievement.

About Gabrielle de Cuir

Gabrielle de Cuir, award-winning narrator, has narrated over three hundred titles and specializes in fantasy, humor, and titles requiring extensive foreign language and accent skills. She was a cowinner of the Audie Award for best narration in 2011 and a three-time finalist for the Audie and has garnered six AudioFile Earphones Awards. Her “velvet touch” as an actor’s director has earned her a special place in the audiobook world as the foremost producer for bestselling authors and celebrities.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nancy on January 16, 2020

I believe this book contains some of the best prose Hughes ever wrote, and I've read a fair share of her work. Interesting factoid: while I was working on my post for this novel, I did a search for mystery/crime/suspense novels set on a train, and this book didn't come up once. Not even once. That's......more

Goodreads review by Dave on January 07, 2022

"I'm afraid"--Katherina Agnew Movie actress Katherina (Kitten) Agnew has a role that playboy director Vivien Spender now wants to give to yet another young woman, but Kitten won’t back down, and she is afraid, based on mounting evidence, that she is going to be killed by Viv. She could just back dow......more

Goodreads review by Aditya on March 13, 2020

Hollywood starlet Kitty Agnew is on a three day train journey. She knows movie mogul Viv Spender will try to kill her before it is over. Sex in exchange of success was their arrangement. Spender turns back alley beauties and small town sweethearts into national heartthrobs and discards them once he......more

Goodreads review by David on January 08, 2023

Having previously read 4 other Hughes novels - all of them either much better or much, much better - it was a bit of a shock realizing that, with 'Dread Journey', there is something decidedly... off. Ultimately - and very surprisingly - it's simply a bad book.  Recently re-released as part of the Ott......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on March 11, 2020

I read The Blackbirder five years ago and liked it. I should have looked for her more popular book that was made into a movie In a Lonely Place, but this fresh hardback stood out on the library shelf. I really did not like the book. It is the story of a wealthy Hollywood type who dreams of finding t......more

Quotes

“The tension and terror of [Dread Journey] are such that few will be able to lay the book down unfinished.” New York Times

“Nobody but Dorothy Hughes can cast suspense into such an uncanny spell.” San Francisco Chronicle, praise for the author

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