Death of an Old Sinner
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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Publisher:
Open Road Media
Open Road Media
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Watermark
Watermark
Publication Year:
2014
2014
ISBN-13:
9781480460287
Description:
<DIV><DIV><B>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</B></DIV><DIV><BR /> 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—America’s ambassador to England who went on to become president of the United States. But a very clear and present danger embroils the irascible retired general in a deepening quagmire of deceit, fraud, and murder. </DIV><DIV><BR /> Enter Mrs. Norris, the housekeeper who has been almost a mother to Ransom’s son since he was a boy. Jimmie is currently running for governor of New York and enjoying his budding relationship with sculptor Helene Joyce. A sudden death changes everything, plunging Jimmie and Mrs. Norris into a bizarre case headed up by Jasper Tully, chief investigator for the Manhattan district attorney’s office. With more lives at stake, the trio follows lead after lead into a web of crime that only the canny housekeeper can clean up in the nick of time.</DIV><DIV><BR /><I>Death of an Old Sinner</I> is the first novel in Dorothy Salisbury Davis’s Mrs. Norris Mysteries, which also include <I>A Gentleman Called</I>, a finalist for the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Award; <I>Old Sinners Never Die</I>; and “Mrs. Norris Observes,” a short story in the collection <I>Tales for a Stormy Night</I>.<BR /><BR /><B><I>Death of an Old Sinner </I>is the 1st book in the Mrs. Norris Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.</B></DIV><DIV> </DIV></DIV>