In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes

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🗓️ 5 July 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Returning to Backlisted this week are literary agents Becky Brown and Norah Perkins, joint custodians of the Curtis Brown Heritage list of literary estates and previously our guests on episode #109, Excellent Women by Barbara Pym. This time we are discussing the work of crime novelist Dorothy B. Hughes and in particular her suspenseful and subversive novel In a Lonely Place (1947), freely adapted as a classic film noir by director Nicholas Ray and starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame. Also in this episode Norah and Becky pitch titles by Kay Dick, Stella Gibbons and R.C. Sherriff to Andy, John and Nicky. Make sure you have a pen and paper to hand... Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length) 15:00 - Starlight by Stella Gibbons 19:10 - The Fortnight In September 26:56 - In A Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes *To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops *For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit www.backlisted.fm *If you'd like to support the show, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/backlisted Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Music
0:24.0	Hey everyone!
0:25.0	This is...
0:26.0	Hey!
0:28.0	Becky Brown, I would like to ask you to tell me about...
0:32.0	Because I've only read about this in press releases in newspapers.
0:36.0	So I would like you to exclusively tell me the story of how you managed to sell a book that you found in a secondhand bookshop
0:44.0	to in a five-way auction.
0:46.0	It is an amazing story. Tell us how you did it.
0:50.0	Well, I found it in Oxfam in Bath.
0:54.0	And I did actually make...
0:56.0	Because Nora and I, we've now both moved out of London.
0:58.0	And when we were making our case for moving ourselves remotely, I was like,
1:02.0	I have found a book that I'm going to sell for a very large amount of money.
1:06.0	And I found it in Bath. And I need access to the bookshops in Bath.
1:10.0	And that's where the books are.
1:12.0	Yeah, that's where all the good books are.
1:14.0	In London, that would have been gone in a second.
1:16.0	But in Bath, it was probably there for weeks.
1:18.0	And what is the book? Tell us.
1:20.0	So the book is called, they colon a sequence of unease by K. Dick,
1:24.0	who was an absolutely remarkable woman.
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