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Davis, Dorothy Salisbury

LC control no.n 79145556
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPS3554.A9335
Personal name headingDavis, Dorothy Salisbury
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Variant(s)Salisbury, Dorothy Margaret
LocatedRhinelander (Wis.) Chicago (Ill.)
Birth date1916-04-25
Death date2014-08-03
Place of deathPalisades (N.Y.)
Field of activityDetective and mystery stories
Profession or occupationAuthors
Found inThe Judas Cat.
678 field information, Aug. 8, 2014 (born 1916)
New York times (online), viewed Aug. 8, 2014 (in obituary published Aug. 7: Dorothy Salisbury Davis; b. Apr. 25, 1916; adopted by a farm couple in Rhinelander, Wis., and given the name Dorothy Margaret Salisbury; spent her early childhood in Rhinelander and in Chicago; m. Harry Davis, 1946 (d. 1993); d. Sunday [Aug. 3, 2014], Palisades, N.Y., aged 98; award-winning mystery author whose fascination with motivation, morality, and manners, more than violence, powered the intricate plots of the suspense novels she wrote over a half-century)
Associated languageeng