Bill Christine
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Dorothy Hughes was a magnificent storyteller, and did a nice tightrope act in avoiding, for 200 pages, what Dix Steele was really about. But she drives you crazy with her detail about what each character looks like. I really don't care that Dix might have a cleft chin. I don't care about Brub's eyebrows. Elmore Leonard said readers don't care what. characters look like and I subscribe to that. Hughes also belabored the geography of the plot. Do we really need to know every street Steele takes as he drives from his apartment to the police station in Beverly Hills? There's another word for all this: Padding.
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It's contrived, unfaithful to the book, and a cheap play on the emotions of the box-office-paying American public.
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