Dorothy Salisbury Davis
Dorothy Salisbury Davis (born April 16, 1916 in Chicago , Illinois , USA - † August 3, 2014 ) was an American writer who became known for her detective novels and short stories.
Life
Dorothy Salisbury Davis spent her youth as an adopted child with the denomination of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus and received her education in their Holy Child High School in rural Waukegan / Illinois. After this time, Davis first worked in the advertising industry and later as a librarian. While at Swift & Company in Chicago, she was editor of the company's magazine, The Merchandiser . She published her first novel, The Judas Cat , in 1949.
Davis was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America association in 1956 and, in 1986/1987, worked with Sara Paretsky , Nancy Pickard and Charlotte MacLeod to set up the American Sisters in Crime (SIC ); In 1987 she became a member of the first SIC Presidium.
In 1946 she married the character actor Harry Davis , with whom she lived until his death in 1993. Davis last lived in Palisades , New York .
Awards
Literary prizes
- 1985 Grand Master Award , highest award of the Mystery Writers of America for special achievements in the crime genre and consistently high writing quality
- 1989 Anthony Award - Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of the author's life's work as a writer
Dorothy Salisbury Davis on major leaderboards
- The American Boucher's List of Best Titles lists two novels by Davis as the best novels of the year: 1950 The Clay Hand and 1951 A Gentle Murderer . Boucher's List of Importend Titles records The Judas Cat for 1949.
- William F. Deeck (1936-2004), a well-known US critic, reviewer, and namesake of the William F. Deeck Malice Domestic Grant for Unpublished Writers , who wrote countless articles for The Armchair Detective , Mystery Readers Journal, and other publications, considered Davis also on his My One Hundred Best Mystery Books list of the best . With The Clay Hand he added her to his list for 1950.
- Marvin Lachman , co-author of the Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection published in 1976 (awarded the Edgar Allan Poe Award in the category Best Critical or Biographical Book ), includes Davis 1951 in his list of the best from 1878 to 1991 with the novel A Gentle Murderer .
- The series The Dell Great Mystery Library , opened in 1957 by the American publisher Dell Publishers , recorded the best crime novels between 1902 and 1962. Davis was there with A Gentle Murderer best crime writer in 1951 and 1963 with Black Sheep, White Lamb .
- Well-known British literary critic and detective writer HRF Keating immortalized Davis with A Death in the Life for 1976 in his list of the 100 best crime novels from 1845 to 1986
Major nominations
- 1959 Edgar Allan Poe Award - Best Novel category for A Gentleman Called
- 1965 Edgar Allan Poe Award - Best Short Story Category for The Purple is Everything
- 1966 Edgar Allan Poe Award - Best Novel category for The Pale Betrayer
- 1969 Edgar Allan Poe Award - Best Novel category for God Speed the Night (together with Jerome Ross )
- 1970 Edgar Allan Poe Award - Best Novel category for Where the Dark Streets Go
- 1976 Edgar Allan Poe Award - Best Short Story Category for Old Friends
Works
Mrs. Norris series
- 1957 Death of an Old Sinner
- 1958 A Gentleman Called (German call of death . Desch, Munich ao 1960)
- 1959 Old Sinners Never Die
Julie Hayes series
- 1976 A Death in the Life (Ger. In the jungle of New York . Goldmann, Munich 1977; ISBN 3-442-04682-3 )
- 1980 Scarlet Night
- 1984 Lullaby of Murder
- 1987 The Habit of Fear
Other novels
- 1949 The Judas Cat
- 1950 The Clay Hand
- 1951 A Gentle Murderer (German confession in the night . Desch, Munich et al. 1964)
- 1952 A Town of Masks
- 1956 Men of No Property
- 1961 The Evening of the Good Samaritan
- 1963 Black Sheep, White Lamb
- 1965 The Pale Betrayer (Ger. The pale traitor . Goldmann, Munich 1966)
- 1966 Enemy and Brother
- 1968 God Speed the Night (with Jerome Ross)
- 1969 Where the Dark Streets Go (dt. Where the dark streets lead . Goldmann, Munich 1970)
- 1972 Shock Wave (German shock wave . Goldmann, Munich 1972; ISBN 3-442-04232-1 )
- 1972 Crime Without Murder
- 1973 The Little Brothers (Eng. The Slumlords of New York . Goldmann, Munich 1974; ISBN 3-442-04409-X )
Collections
- 1983 Tales for a Stormy Night: The Collected Crime Stories
- 2001 In the Still of the Night: Tales to Lock Your Doors By
Short stories
- 1952 Spring Fever . In: Ellery Queen (Ed.): The Queen's awards. Seventh series: the winners of the seventh annual detective short-story contest . Victor Gollancz, London 1952
- 1955 Born Killer . In: Ellery Queen (Ed.): The Queen's Awards . Perma Books, Montreal 1955
- 1956 backward, turn backward . In: Ellery Queen's awards. Ninth series: The winners of the ninth annual short-story contest . Collins, London 1956
- 1957 A Matter of Public Notice . In: Ellery Quenn's Mystery Magazine, July 1957
- 1957 The Muted Horn . In: Hans Stefan Santesson (Ed.): The Fantastic Universe Omnibus . Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs / NJ 1960
- 1959 Mrs. Norris Visits the Library . In: Ellery Quenn's Mystery Magazine, April 1959
- 1963 By the Scruff of the Soul . In: Ellery Quenn's Mystery Magazine, January 1963
- 1973 The Purple is Everything . In: A Treasury of Modern Mysteries . Doubleday, Garden City / NY 1973
- 1975 Old Friends . In: Ellery Quenn's Mystery Magazine, September 1975
- 1980 The Last Party . In Alice Laurance and Isaac Asimov: Who done it? . Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1980
- 1981 The Devil and His Due . In: Ellery Quenn's Mystery Magazine, April 1981
- 1983 Lost Generation . In: Dorothy Dalisbury Davis: Tales for a Stormy Night: The Collected Crime Stories . C. Countryman Press, Woodstock / Vt. 1984
- 1983 A Matter at the Crossroad . In: Dorothy Dalisbury Davis: Tales for a Stormy Night: The Collected Crime Stories . C. Countryman Press, Woodstock / Vt. 1984
- 1983 Sweet William . In: Dorothy Dalisbury Davis: Tales for a Stormy Night: The Collected Crime Stories . C. Countryman Press, Woodstock / Vt. 1984
- 1983 Natural Causes . In: Ellery Quenn's Mystery Magazine, December 1983
- 1986 Till Death Do Us Part . In: Thomas Chastain et al. (Ed.): Murder in Manhattan . William Morrow, New York 1986
- 1989 Christopher and Maggie . In: Charlotte MacLeod (Ed.): Mistletoe Mysteries . Mysterious Press, New York 1989
- 1989 Justina . In: John Mortimer (Ed.): Thou Shalt Not Kill . Severn House, Sutton / Surrey 1992
- 1990 A Silver Thimble . In: The Adams Round Table (Ed.): A Body is Found . Wynwood Press, New York 1990
- 1991 The Puppet . In: Sara Paretsky (Ed.): A Woman's Eye . Dell, New York 1991
- 1992 To Forget Mary Ellen . In: Dorothy Dalisbury Davis: In the Still of the Night: Tales to Lock Your Doors By . Five Star, Unity / ME 2001
- 1994 Now Is Forever . In: Thomas Chastain u. a. (Ed.): Justice in Manhattan: The Adams Round Table . Longmeadow Press, Stamford / CT 1994
- 1996 Miles to Go . In: Sara Paretsky (Ed.): Women on the Case . Delacorte Press, New York 1996
- 1998 The Scream . In: Ellery Quenn's Mystery Magazine, April 1998
- 2000 Hank's Tale . In: Ellery Quenn's Mystery Magazine, September / October 2000
- 2002 The Letter . In: The Adams Round Table (Ed.): Murder in the Family . Berkley Prime Crime, 2002
- 2007 Dies Irae . In: Sara Paretsky (Ed.): Sisters on the Case: Celebrating Twenty Years of Sisters in Crime . New American Library, New York 2007
Anthologies as editor
- 1970 Crime Without Murder: An Anthology of Stories by the Mystery Writers of America . Scribner, New York 1970
Film adaptations
- 1987 Where the Dark Streets Go . TV adaptation by CBS entitled Broken Vows . Director: JUD TAYLOR. Actors: Tommy Lee Jones , Annette O'Toole , M. Emmet Walsh , David Strathairn , Frances Fisher and many others
Web links
- Dorothy Salisbury Davis in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bibliography at Fantasticfiction (English)
- Audio interview with the author of Don Swaim on December 16, 1987 (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Trailblazing crime writer Dorothy Salisbury Davis dies
- ↑ see official website ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the religious community
- ↑ see the official website of the Holy Child High School
- ↑ cf. List of MWA presidents
- ↑ cf. Rutgers University Libraries (English)
- ↑ cf. One Hundred Notable Novels of Detection . In: Marvin Lachmann: A Reader's Guide to the American Novel of Detection . GK Hall, New York 1993. Also available as an online list
- ↑ cf. HRF Keating: Crime & Mystery: The 100 Best Books . Xanadu, London 1987. Listed online at Classic Crime Fiction
- ↑ no earlier publication was found
- ↑ cf. Broken Vows on the IMDB
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Davis, Dorothy Salisbury |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd August 2014 |