Julia Clara Catherine Maria Dolores Robins Norton Birk Olsen Hitchens, better known to mystery fans as Dolores Hitchens, was born December 25, 1907 in San Antonio, Texas. She married Beverley S. Olsen, a radio operator on a merchant vessel, around 1934. Beginning in 1938, Dolores wrote a series of mysteries as D. B. Olsen. It is not known whether she divorced Olsen or was widowed, but she was re-married to Hubert A. Hitchens by the early 1940s. After her marriage to Bert—who was a railway detective—they collaborated on a series of five railroad mysteries from 1957 to 1964. Dolores also wrote an excellent group of standalone mysteries, including Fool's Gold which was filmed by Jean-Luc Godard as Band of Outsiders in 1964, as well as the critically applauded Sleep With Strangers and Sleep With Slander. She passed away on August 1, 1973 in Orange County, California.
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- Strip for Murder + Two Stories
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- "Hitchens had a good ear and a dead‐on eye for the various charades played by the human animals."—Ed Gorman, Deadly Women. March 2022.
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- The Abductor / The Bank with the Bamboo Door
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- "The suspense builds and builds…Dolores Hitchens at her best."–Springfield Leader and Press. "Tense and exciting"–Francis Iles, The Guardian. New introduction by Curtis Evans. March 2021.
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- Footsteps in the Night / Beat Back the Tide
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- "Horrible possibilities unfold and the pace picks up, leaving us breathless and horrified as we desperately flick the pages to discover just how bad it's going to get."—Val McDermid, New York Times. July 2020.
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- Stairway to an Empty Room / Terror Lurks in Darkness
- 978-1-944520-79-3
- Two terrific crime novels from the author of Sleep With Strangers. "High-grade suspense." — San Francisco Chronicle. "Expertly tautened action and style." — Saturday Review. New introduction by Nicholas Litchfield. October 2019.
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