Dorothy B Hughes Books in Order

Struggling actress Lizanne Steffasson answers a peculiar newspaper advertisement and accepts a search for a missing heir. His disappearance threatens a wealthy family's inheritance, and Lizanne's own knowledge makes an already dangerous assignment harder to survive.

Griselda Satterlee arrives in Manhattan hoping to reinvent herself as a fashion designer. Two ruthless twins insist that she possesses a valuable blue marble, and the arrival of her estranged younger sister deepens the menace.

Griselda Satterlee's second honeymoon takes a disturbing turn when her husband leaves a bar with a blonde stranger. The woman's subsequent death places him under suspicion and draws Griselda into a mystery involving espionage and hidden loyalties.

After surviving torture in a Fascist prison, Kit McKittrick learns that the friend who helped him escape has died in New York. Convinced the death was murder, he investigates while struggling with the trauma of his captivity.

A French refugee flees New York after an acquaintance is murdered and seeks a smuggler known as the Blackbirder in Santa Fe. A man following her may offer assistance, but she cannot determine whose interests he serves.

Soldier Johnnie Brown has two days in New York before shipping out to war and wants to ride the subway. Following a suspicious German-speaking stranger leads him to a townhouse full of secrets, danger, and confusion.

Twelve years after the war, a peace conference may end the occupation of Germany. When the secretary opposing withdrawal is murdered, deputy Piers Hunt arrives in New York incognito to resist those threatening another global conflict.

Film producer Vivien Spender wants to replace actress Kitten Agnew, but her contract prevents him from discarding her. Traveling together by train, Kitten begins to fear that his plans for ending their professional relationship include murder.

Sailor follows a wealthy former senator to Santa Fe seeking money connected to the murder of the senator's wife. Amid the town's fiesta, a pursuing detective and encounters with local residents complicate his attempt to collect.

A woman living under the name Eliza Williams accepts a mysterious package from an associate of her lover. When its retrieval leads to a shooting in her apartment, her assumed identity becomes part of a deadly mystery.

Former fighter pilot Dix Steele prowls postwar Los Angeles, bitter about the life he believes he deserves. Reconnecting with a wartime friend who now investigates a series of stranglings brings him dangerously close to the police.

Jose Aragon agrees to carry a package across the Mexican border and becomes entangled with an international smuggling ring. When his brother is murdered, he must unravel the operation before the people responsible turn on him.

Steve Wintress travels from Berlin to Los Angeles to retrieve a secret report outlining Soviet expansion plans. With its author in hiding, local Communist allies distrust him while the FBI follows the same trail toward the missing document.

Driving from Los Angeles to Phoenix, young doctor Hugh Denismore reluctantly picks up a teenage hitchhiker. When she is found dead days later, he becomes a police suspect and must confront the assumptions surrounding the investigation.

Dorothy B. Hughes draws on Erle Stanley Gardner's correspondence and autobiographical records to examine the creator of Perry Mason. The biography follows his legal career, personal life, and prolific writing business, including his methods of producing fiction.