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Dolores Hitchens: Fools’ Gold (paperback and LOA eBook Classic)

Foreword by Duane Swierczynski

“Dolores Hitchens’s Fools’ Gold starts out with three young delinquents who think they’re smart, coming up with the kind of caper so stupid only the young could have dreamed it up. Then they make the mistake of letting a really bad man in on the action. 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, The New York Times Book Review

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Dolores Hitchens wrote crime novels that were both tough and compassionate, with a sharp eye for the emotional scars that violence leaves. The basis for Jean-Luc Godard’s film Band of Outsiders, Fools’ Gold is a swift and unadorned tale of three young people—two boys just released after being incarcerated for a juvenile offense, and an orphaned girl living in a house full of secrets—whose lives are rapidly torn apart by what starts as a simple plan of robbery. It echoes other classic American narratives of youth astray and on the run, and with its headlong pace catches the rhythm of adolescent crisis, as Hitchens’s protagonists find themselves caught up in a situation spiraling beyond their control.

Dolores Hitchens (1907–1973) was a prolific mystery writer, publishing Sleep With Strangers (1955), Fools’ Gold (1958), and The Watcher (1959), among other works, under her own name, and twenty additional suspense novels as D. B. Olsen.

Unabridged Audio Edition: Fools’ Gold, narrated by Scott Brick, is available from Audible and iBooks (through iTunes). Actor and screenwriter Scott Brick has won two Audies and over fifty Earphones Awards for his work as a narrator. The audiobook includes commentary by Sarah Weinman, editor of Women Crime Writers and an authority on mystery-suspense fiction.

Fools’ Gold is also in the Library of America collection Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1950s, edited by Sarah Weinman.

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ISBN: 978-1-59853-634-8 257 pages

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