Where the Dark Streets Go
by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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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 boy says, and it is too late for a doctor or the police. In the basement of the apartment house, Father McMahon kneels beside the show more blood-soaked man, who has been stabbed with a knife. The man asks for no absolution. He wants to talk of life, not death, and takes to his grave the identity of his killer-and his own. No one in the neighborhood-not his lover or his friends-knows the man's real name, where he came from, or why someone would want to kill him. But in his final minutes, he reveals one clue that sends Father McMahon, a cop, and a wealthy young woman down New York's dark streets, where a killer is waiting to strike again. show lessTags
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Who was the dying man who was stabbed? The man told young Father Joseph McMahon neither his own name nor the name of his killer. His landlady and the neighbors knew the dead man as Gust Muller, but that is not his real name. The priest, muddled about his own vocation, plunges into investigating who this man really was and who killed him, eventually joining forces with an artist who was the man’s ex-girlfriend. Dorothy Salisbury Davis instills this thoughtful novel with plenty of twists.
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Dorothy Salisbury Davis was born on April 25, 1916. She received a degree in literature from Barat College in 1938. In the depths of the Depression, she got a job as a magician's assistant. She later worked in public relations for a meatpacking company before becoming an author. During her lifetime, she wrote 17 crime novels, three historical show more novels, and many short stories. Her works included A Gentle Murderer, the Julie Hayes Mysteries series, and Black Sheep, White Lamb. She received a lifetime achievement award from The Mystery Writers of America. In 1986, she helped found Sisters in Crime. She died on August 3, 2014 at the age of 98. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1970
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- Broken Vows (1987 | IMDb)
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