Dorothy B. Hughes (1904-93) was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and lived most of her life in New Mexico. A journalist and a poet, she began publishing hard-boiled crime novels in 1940, three of which were made into successful films: The Fallen Sparrow (1943), Ride the Pink Horse (1947) and In a Lonely Place (1950). In her later years, Hughes reviewed crime novels for the LA Times, the New York Herald Tribune and other papers. She was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America.
Los Ángeles de finales de los años cuarenta es una ciudad de promesas y prosperidad, excepto para el expiloto de aviones de combate Dix Steele, que vive su vida como un oasis de tedio en comparación con «la sensación de poder, euforia y libertad que le producía surcar los cielos...
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