Porträt: Dorothy B. Hughes

One can read too much into an author’s dedication, but the one Dorothy B. Hughes used for her novel “The Fallen Sparrow” is as telling in what it doesn’t say as it is in what it does: “For Eric Ambler / (…) / somewhere in England/ because he has no book this year.”

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