Dorothy Salisbury Davis is a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America, and a recipient of lifetime achievement awards from Bouchercon and Malice Domestic. The author of seventeen crime novels, including the Mrs. Norris Mysteries and the Julie Hayes Mysteries; three historical novels; and numerous short stories; she has served as president of the Mystery Writers of America and is a founder of Sisters in Crime.Born in Chicago in 1916, she grew up on farms in Wisconsin and Illinois and graduated from college into the Great Depression. She found employment as a magic-show promoter, which took her to small towns all over the country, and subsequently worked on the WPA Writers Project in advertising and industrial relations. During World War II, she directed the benefits program of a major meatpacking company for its more than eighty thousand employees in military service. She was married for forty-seven years to the late Harry Davis, an actor, with whom she traveled abroad extensively. She currently lives in Palisades, New York.
31 Ebooks tarafından Dorothy Salisbury Davis
Dorothy Salisbury Davis: Death of an Old Sinner
A Grand Master of crime fiction, Dorothy Salisbury Davis introduces the redoubtable crime-solving Scottish housekeeper Mrs. Norris in this thrilling tale of family secrets and murder General Ransom J …
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Dorothy Salisbury Davis: Gentleman Called
In Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis’s second Mrs. Norris novel, which the New York Timeshailed as ‘;tensely perplexing, ‘ the crime-solving Scottish housekeeper helps crack the c …
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Dorothy Salisbury Davis: Old Sinners Never Die
Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis brings back the beguiling character Major General Ransom Jarvis in this third Mrs. Norris Mystery, a prequel, which immerses the redoubtable crim …
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Dorothy Salisbury Davis: Men of No Property
Dorothy Salisbury Davis brings to life the joys, hardships, and challenges of the Irish in New York City, following the lives of five people from their voyage to America in 1848 through fifteen turbu …
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Dorothy Salisbury Davis: Death of an Old Sinner
A Grand Master of crime fiction, Dorothy Salisbury Davis introduces the redoubtable crime-solving Scottish housekeeper Mrs. Norris in this thrilling tale of family secrets and murder General Ransom J …
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€11.43
Dorothy Salisbury Davis: Gentleman Called
In Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis’s second Mrs. Norris novel, which the New York Times hailed as “tensely perplexing, ” the crime-solving Scottish h …
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Dorothy Salisbury Davis: Old Sinners Never Die
Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis brings back the beguiling character Major General Ransom Jarvis in this third Mrs. Norris Mystery, a prequel, which immerses the redoubtable crim …
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Dorothy Salisbury Davis: Death in the Life
Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis introduces one of her most winning heroines, Julie Hayes, a former actress turned fortune-teller who abruptly learns there is murder in her futur …
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Dorothy Salisbury Davis: Scarlet Night
A Manhattan woman visits a Soho gallery and stumbles into a mystery in this novel by an Edgar Award winner who “can build suspense to a sonic peak” (Los Angeles Times). It starts in …
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Dorothy Salisbury Davis: Lullaby of Murder
In Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis’s third Julie Hayes mystery, the intrepid former actress and amateur sleuth returns to Broadway to catch a killer Julie Hayes has come u …
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Dorothy Salisbury Davis: Habit of Fear
After a brutal assault, a reporter flees New York to look for her father in Ireland in ‘;a tale chockful of action’ from a crime-fiction master (Publishers Weekly). Julie Hayes is finally making it a …
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Dorothy Salisbury Davis: Judas Cat
Praised by the New Yorker as “excellent, ” this mystery novel that features a cat as a murder suspect launched the acclaimed literary career of Grand Master of crime fiction Dor …
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Dorothy Salisbury Davis: Gentle Murderer
A frightening confession leads a priest to hunt down a murderer in Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis’s bestselling novel, which critic Anthony Boucher called “one of t …
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Dorothy Salisbury Davis: Town of Masks
Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis delivers a spine-tingling novel, hailed by the New York Times as ‘;beautifully written, ‘ about an upstanding small-town spinster whose life is o …
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Dorothy Salisbury Davis: Clay Hand
Death strikes in a coal mining town on the West Virginia border in this “impressive” mystery by an Edgar Award–winning author (Chicago Sun-Times). Phil Mc Govern, the sports e …
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Dorothy Salisbury Davis: Black Sheep, White Lamb
After a robbery goes wrong, a teenager finds he has a knack for murder in Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis’s riveting psychological thriller that illuminates the dark corne …
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Dorothy Salisbury Davis: Pale Betrayer
Edgar Award Finalist: Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis delivers a thrilling tale of Cold War–era espionage and murder. One afternoon in Manhattan’s Washington Square …
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Dorothy Salisbury Davis: Where the Dark Streets Go
Edgar Award Finalist: Hailed by Mary Higgins Clark as “one of the best mystery-suspense writers, ” Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis presents a spellbinding tale of pa …
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Dorothy Salisbury Davis: Shock Wave
A tour de force of suspense, Shock Waveis the tense tale of a female reporter who, on assignment in a midwestern university town, finds she has stepped into an environment fused for violence After tw …
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Dorothy Salisbury Davis: Little Brothers
An engrossing crime novel set in New York’s Little Italy from Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis They are a secret society in New York’s Little Italy. The Little Brothers swear to …
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Dorothy Salisbury Davis: Tales for a Stormy Night
Fifteen spine-tingling stories of murder, mayhem, and the macabre from one of America’s finest crime authors Dorothy Salisbury Davis has become known as one of America’s finest crime writ …
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Dorothy Salisbury Davis: In the Still of the Night
A collection of eight suspenseful tales from one of the century’s finest crime authors With stories published when the author was in her seventies and eighties, this collection proves that afte …
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Dorothy Salisbury Davis: Evening of the Good Samaritan
Before, during, and after World War II, three generations of men make their mark on the world in acclaimed author Dorothy Salisbury Davis’s vibrant, thought-provoking novel that scrutinizes the …
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Dorothy Salisbury Davis: Enemy and Brother
Convicted of murdering a fellow journalist, a writer returns to Greece to find the truth in Dorothy Salisbury Davis’s stunning, richly atmospheric novel of deadly political intrigue John Eakins retur …
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Dorothy Salisbury Davis & Jerome Ross: God Speed the Night
Edgar Award Finalist: Hailed by the New York Times as “a book you will not readily forget, ” this World War II adventure tale of a nun who risks her life to help a Jewish couple …
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Charlotte MacLeod: Mistletoe Mysteries
Have yourself a mysterious little Christmas with fifteen whodunits from New York Times–bestselling authors Sharyn Mc Crumb, Mary Higgins Clark, and more! Peace on Earth isn’t everyone&rsq …
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Salisbury Davis Dorothy Salisbury Davis: Gentle Murderer
Hailed by critic Anthony Boucher as "one of the best detective stories of modern times, " this classic tale by Grand Master Dorothy Salisbury Davis combines suspense and psychological insig …
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