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183 pages ; 21 cm |
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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. |
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Family secrets -- Fiction.
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Housekeepers -- Fiction.
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Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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Detective and mystery stories.
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Detective and mystery stories. (OCoLC)fst00891461
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Mystery fiction.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Davis, Dorothy Salisbury. Death of an old sinner. New York, Scribner [©1957] (OCoLC)613174077 |
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