title: The Delicate Ape
text: # The Delicate Ape
  
  The Delicate Ape is a 1944 mystery thriller novel by the American author Dorothy B. Hughes. It was first published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce. Although written while World War II was still being fought, Hughes sets her novel in a futuristic era twelve years after the end of the world war. It revolves around an upcoming peace conference in New York where the major powers debate withdrawing the occupying forces following the defeat of Nazi Germany a decade earlier.
  
  