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A GENTLE MURDERER

DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS

He came to confess a murder. Then he vanished. Now a priest and a detective must race to stop him—one seeking redemption, the other justice. In the quiet of a New York church, a shaken young man steps into the confessional. His voice is raw. He's killed someone—he says he didn't mean to—and he's still holding the hammer. Before Father Duffy can act, the man disappears into the ...

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THE CLAY HAND

DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS

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 McGovern, the sports editor of an Ohio newspaper, cannot help envying his friend Dick Coffee. Dick travels all over the world reporting on wars, labor strikes, and revolutions; wins Pulitzers; and has a beautiful wife, Margar...

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LULLABY OF MURDER

DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS

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 up in the world. Her days as a starving actress behind her, she is married to a globe-trotting journalist, keeping up with her friends from her fortune-telling days, and celebrating a year...

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GOD SPEED THE NIGHT

DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS / JEROME ROSS

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 escape Nazi-occupied France is the collaborative creative effort of Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis and award-winning television writer Jerome Ross, It is harvest season in St. Hil...

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THE PALE BETRAYER

DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS

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 Park, Eric Mather is approached by two men, Tom and Jerry, with a business proposal: a bit of light espionage that may be considered treason. Eric's friend and colleague, physics professor Pete...

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THE EVENING OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN

DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS

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 conscience of men in a time of crisis As Europe slides toward war, the faculty of a midwestern university fight a crusade of their own—the campaign against Communism. The local publishin...

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WHERE THE DARK STREETS GO

DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS

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 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 ...

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BLACK SHEEP, WHITE LAMB

DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS

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 corners of a killer's mind The hamlet of Hillside has one factory, three churches, and more bored teenagers than it knows what to do with. Georgie Rocco is more lost than any of his classmates...

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THE JUDAS CAT

DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS

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 Dorothy Salisbury Davis For generations, bitter old Andy Mattson terrified the children of Hillside and puzzled his adult neighbors. How did the scowling old codger, who seemed to spend his life stroking hi...

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TALES FOR A STORMY NIGHT

DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS

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 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 fif...

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MEN OF NO PROPERTY

DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS

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 turbulent years When the Valiant weighs anchor, the Irish that are crammed into her hold break into song, and with the hymn, say good-bye to the island of their birth. Famine, nationali...

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A GENTLEMAN CALLED

DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS

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 housekeeper helps crack the case of a serial lady-killer As housekeeper to James Jarvis's recently deceased father, a retired major general of the US Army, Mrs. Norris has raised Jimmie since boyhood. Now the W...

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SCARLET NIGHT

DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS

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 innocently enough. Julie Hayes and her husband have just returned to Manhattan from a month in Paris. Julie looks forward to spending quality time with Jeff, whose career as a journalist takes him a...

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OLD SINNERS NEVER DIE

DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS

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 crime-solving Scottish housekeeper in a murder investigation in the nation's capital With a new president in the White House, Major General Ransom Jarvis suspects that his retirement fr...

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IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT

DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS

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 after five decades writing crime fiction, Dorothy Salisbury Davis has lost none of her edge. In "Christopher and Maggie," based on Davis's own experiences during the Great Depression, a trave...

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A GENTLE MURDERER

DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS

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 the best detective stories of modern times" On a hot Saturday night in Manhattan, Father Duffy sits in a confessional, growing alarmed as he listens to the voice of a distraught young man who sp...

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SHOCK WAVE

DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS

A tour de force of suspense, Shock Wave is 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 two decades of covering riots, assassinations, and urban decay, Kate Osborn comes to Venice, Illinois, to profile Steve Higgins, an old-school Chicago-style politician. Although Higg...

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THE LITTLE BROTHERS

DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS

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 a strict code. While they carry out good works, they believe in using “the Killing Eye” on evildoers. When sixteen-year-old Angelo is put up for membership, he is not sure he wants ...

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ENEMY AND BROTHER

DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS

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 returns to Greece, seemingly to pursue Byron scholarship. But his deeper concern is to find out the truth about the murder of an American newspaperman named Alexander Webb, killed during...

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THE HABIT OF FEAR

DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS

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 as a reporter—with a column at the New York Daily under her own byline—when her husband, Jeff, tells her he has fallen in love with another woman and wants a divorce. Blinded by a...

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A DEATH IN THE LIFE

DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS

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 future Twenty-five-year-old Julie Hayes is feeling overshadowed by her globe-trotting journalist husband and looking for some excitement and direction in life. On what amounts to a dare,...

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A TOWN OF MASKS

DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS

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 overturned by a shocking murder When other young women left the little town of Campbell's Cove to acquire culture, see the world, fall in love, and marry, Hannah Blake stayed at home, ...

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DEATH OF AN OLD SINNER

DOROTHY SALISBURY DAVIS

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 Jarvis is writing his memoirs about a distinguished career that spanned five continents and three wars. Along the way, he stumbles upon a scandal about a philandering ancestor—Americ...

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