Death of an Old Sinner
Author : Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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Page : 157 pages
File Size : 16,78 MB
Release : 1961
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Author : Dorothy Salisbury Davis
Publisher :
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 16,78 MB
Release : 1961
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Author : Dorothy Salisbury Davis
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1480460281
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—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. 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. Death of an Old Sinner is the first novel in Dorothy Salisbury Davis’s Mrs. Norris Mysteries, which also include A Gentleman Called, a finalist for the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Award; Old Sinners Never Die; and “Mrs. Norris Observes,” a short story in the collection Tales for a Stormy Night. Death of an Old Sinner is the 1st book in the Mrs. Norris Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Author : Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,32 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Detective and mystery stories
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General Jarvis - the beguiling character in the author's earlier comic mystery, "Death of an old sinner" - finds himself involved in the death of a nightclub proprietor.
Author : Erle Stanley Gardner
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Page : pages
File Size : 47,39 MB
Release : 1974
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Author : Matthew Henry
Publisher :
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 31,68 MB
Release : 1833
Category : Dissenters, Religious
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Author : Elisabeth Israels Perry
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,7 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9401020094
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Page : 638 pages
File Size : 40,39 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Louisville (Ky.)
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Author : Thomas Jackson
Publisher :
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 26,75 MB
Release : 1841
Category : Methodism
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Author : Emily Brontë
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 16,77 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0199535604
Against a background of English moors in the eighteenth century, the lives of two families become intertwined through marriage, passion, and the dominating force of a man called Heathcliff.
Author : Nathaniel Ames
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Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,15 MB
Release : 1830
Category : Adventure and adventurers
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