Dorothy Salisbury Davis

Tales for a Stormy Night

Fifteen Crime Stories

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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 li… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4804-6056-0
EAN: 9781480460560
Produktnummer: 31911080
Verlag: Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 255 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'790 KB

Über den Autor

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.