Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Dorothy Salisbury Davis - A Death In The Life




Idle wife of absent newspaperman decide to roam free around the city and experience real life meeting prostitutes, pimps, and other scum, but when murder of famous actor shows up she takes a role of detective along with the police. Good crime novel, now a bit overlooked.

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