Dorothy Salisbury Davis

Dorothy Salisbury Davis (born April 26, 1916, Chicago, Illinois^[1]) is an American crime fiction writer.

She was an adopted child, raised in Illinois. She worked in Chicago in advertising as a research librarian and as an editor of The Merchandiser, prior to taking up fiction writing.^[2]She was married to Harry Davis, the character actor,^[3]from 1946 until his death in 1993. She published many novels and short stories. Among them are two sets of series novels, but she mainly wrote stand alone novels. Her novels explore psychological suspense, as was popular for many decades, and has ‘an especially strong way of sharing with readers the minds of female characters confronting hazards and crisis’.^[4] She was nominated for an Edgar Award eight times, served as President^[5] of the Mystery Writers of America in 1956 and was declared a Grand Master by that organization in 1985.

Bibliography

Mrs. Norris Series

• A Gentleman Called (1958)
• Old Sinners Never Die (1960)
• Death of an Old Sinner (1961)

Julie Hayes Series

• A Death in the Life (1976)
• Scarlet Night (1980)
• Lullaby of Murder (1984)
• The Habit of Fear (1987)

Novels

• The Judas Cat (1949)
• A Gentle Murderer (1951)
• A Town of Masks (1952; reprint edition, 2001)
• The Clay Hand (1952)
• Black Sheep, White Lamb (1964)
• The Pale Betrayer (1965)
• Enemy and Brother (1967)
• God Speed the Night (1969) (with Jerome Ross)
• Where the Dark Streets Go (1970)
• Crime without Murder (1972)
• Shock Wave (1974)
• Little Brothers (1974)
• In the Still of the Night (2001)

Collections

• Tales for a Stormy Night (1984)

Anthologies containing stories by Dorothy Salisbury Davis

• The Fantastic Universe Omnibus (1960)
• Great Tales of Mystery and Suspense (1981)

Short stories

• Spring Fever (1952)
• Matter of Public Notice, a (1957)
• The Muted Horn (1957)
• Mrs. Norris Visits the Library (1959)
• By the Scruff of the Soul (1963)
• Old Friends (1975)
• Last Party, the (1980)
• Devil and His Due, the (1981)
• Natural Causes (1983)
• Justina (1989)
• Silver Thimble, a (1990)
• Puppet, the (1991)
• To Forget Mary Ellen (1992)
• Now Is Forever (1994)
• Miles to Go (1996)
• Scream, the (1998)
• Hank's Tale (2000)
• Letter, the (2002)

Persondata
Name	Davis, Dorothy Salisbury
Alternative names
Short description	Novelist, short story writer
Date of birth	April 26, 1916
Place of birth	Chicago, Illinois, United States
Date of death
Place of death

References

1. ^ "Dorothy Salisbury Davis". Contemporary Authors Online. November 15, 2005. Retrieved on August 4, 2010.
2. ^ Illinois authors website
3. ^ Harry Davis at imdb
4. ^ [www.jrank.org/literature/pages/6502/Dorothy-Salisbury-Davis.html|John M. Reilly ‘Dorothy Salisbury Davis Biography’ at Jrank.org]
5. ^ 'Presidents' page Mystery Writers of America website