2 Books by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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Overview: 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.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
Tales for a Stormy Night: Fifteen Crime Stories (1984)
Fifteen spine-tingling stories of murder, mayhem, and the macabre from one of America’s finest crime authorsDorothy Salisbury Davis has become known as one of America’s finest crime writers through such novels as A Gentle Murderer, The Clay Hand, and Death of an Old Sinner. Her short stories have also won acclaim since they first started to appear in 1952. Now, here are fifteen of them collected in one volume.Lost Generation is classic Dorothy Salisbury Davis: a chilling story of small-town policemen who cross the line between good and evil. In A Matter of Public Notice, a midwestern town is set on edge by three strangulations of women who live alone. Spring Fever introduces readers to a farmer’s wife who finds romance to be a fatal attraction. By the Scruff of the Soul presents a case of sibling rivalry turned deadly. And in Mrs. Norris Observes, the inimitable crime-solving housekeeper happens upon an explosive scene at the New York Public Library.
Where the Dark Streets Go (1969)
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 passion and deadly deceit that begins with a dying man’s mysterious last words Father McMahon is struggling to write a sermon when a boy runs into his office. A man in his tenement is dying, the boy says, and it is too late for a doctor or the police. In the basement of the apartment house, Father McMahon kneels beside the blood-soaked man, who has been stabbed with a knife. The man asks for no absolution. He wants to talk of life, not death, and takes to his grave the identity of his killer—and his own.No one in the neighborhood—not his lover or his friends—knows the man’s real name, where he came from, or why someone would want to kill him. But in his final minutes, he reveals one clue that sends Father McMahon, a cop, and a wealthy young woman down New York’s dark streets, where a killer is waiting to…
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