An American Mystery Classic: Ride the Pink Horse (Hardcover)

from DeltaQueen50

Ride the Pink Horse is a gritty story set in a small town in New Mexico, one gets the sense of a border town with a large proportion of the population comprised of Hispanics and Indians. As the book opens a Chicago hood with the moniker of Sailor gets off the bus and starts looking for both a hot...

from therestlessmouse

Reads a bit like an old Western, but holds interest. There are passages and events that might offend modern sensibilities.

from arubabookwoman

I've read 2 other books by Dorothy Hughes, master of mid-century classic noir, and liked them, so I was not surprised to like this one as well. When the book opens, Sailor has just stepped off the bus from Chicago to a sleepy southwestern town (modeled on Santa Fe). He is searching for the Sen, a...

from DaveWilde

This 1946 novel tells a hardboiled Chicago tough guy story of murder, betrayal, and corruption. But Hughes does something really interesting with the story. She takes this tough Chicago characters, particularly the lead character, "Sailor," and puts them in Santa Fe, New Mexico during Fiesta week...