Ride the Pink Horse, Dorothy B. Hughes
Ride the Pink Horse, Dorothy B. Hughes
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Ride the Pink Horse

Author: Dorothy B. Hughes

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 7 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Skyboat Media

Published: 08/19/2014

Synopsis

During Fiesta, three desperate men converge in a perilous New Mexico townIt takes four days for Sailor to travel to New Mexico by bus. He arrives broke, sweaty, and ready to get what's his. It's the annual Fiesta, and the locals burn an effigy of Zozobra so that their troubles follow the mythical character into the fire. But for former senator Willis Douglass, trouble is just beginning.Sailor was Willis' personal secretary when his wife died in an apparent robbery gone wrong. Only Sailor knows it was Willis who ordered her murder, and he's agreed to keep his mouth shut in exchange for a little bit of cash. On Sailor's tail is a cop who wants the senator for more than a payoff. As Fiesta rages on, these three men will circle one another in a dance of death, as they chase truth, money, and revenge.

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 Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki is a Grammy-winning audiobook producer and an award-winning narrator who has won several Audie Awards, as well as more than twenty-five Earphones Awards, and been named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on May 14, 2024

This is Hughes’ ninth novel, published in 1946, and her first masterpiece (two more would follow: In a Lonely Place and The Expendable Man). It is great for at least four reasons: 1) it is quintessential noir, featuring a flawed hero just trying to make a dishonest buck in a world more damaged than h......more

Goodreads review by Jayaprakash on March 04, 2012

Decades before Cormac McCarthy, Dorothy Hughes seems to have created and mastered a style that is six parts craggy, hard-boiled prose, three parts dense, lyrical inner narrative and one part numinous magic. And she deploys this style more effectively, in the service of a more taut, gripping story th......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on May 24, 2017

Ride the Pink Horse is one of the most intense books I've read recently, and while the plot is very simple, the book as a whole is definitely not. Like Patricia Highsmith would do a few years later in her first book, Hughes manages to get us inside the head of her main character and keep us there f......more

Quotes

“Hughes is the master we keep turning to.” Sara Paretsky, New York Times bestselling author

“In this excellent novel Dorothy Hughes has given us a sympathetic study of the development of a criminal.” New York Times

“Nobody but Dorothy Hughes can cast suspense into such an uncanny spell, and she’s never done it better.” San Francisco Chronicle

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