A Gentleman Called by Dorothy Salisbury Davis

A Mrs Norris Mystery

 

Cover by Victor Kalin

As housekeeper to James Jarvis’s recently deceased father, a retired major general of the US Army, Mrs. Norris has raised Jimmie since boyhood. Now the Wall Street lawyer faces a challenging case. The son of one of the firm’s old blue-blood clients has been slapped with a paternity suit. But Teddy Adkins swears he never slept with the woman.

Meanwhile, Mrs. Norris is miffed when her gentleman friend Jasper Tully, the widowed chief investigator for the Manhattan DA’s office, cancels one dinner date after another because a real estate magnate has been found strangled in the bedroom of her Upper East Side apartment. Jewelry was stolen, but there are no signs of a break-in. Tully’s investigation turns up a trail of strangulations that extends all the way to the Midwest. As Mrs. Norris pursues her own unorthodox investigation, she uncovers a shocking link between the cases that threatens her very life.

Printing History

Written by Dorothy Margaret Salisbury Davis (1916-2014)

Charles Scribners

1958

Dell Publishing Co

2850

September 1962

The Lineup by Frank Kane

Novel based upon the 1954-1960 CBS-TV series of the same name, starring Warner Anderson and Tom Tully

 

Cover by Victor Kalin

  Lieutenant Ben Guthrie and Inspector Matt Greb are investigating a robbery that has turned into a double homicide. Dead at the scene, a gambling den in Chinatown, are the operator of the house, killed in a blast of mustard gas, and a patrolman outside, hit by the getaway car. Guthrie and Greb, aided by associates within the department, begin a thorough search for clues. They soon discover the vehicle involved, but the owner and his wife, Sam and Em Walters, claim to know nothing about how it got out of the garage. Meanwhile, Sarge Kurtz convinces the other members of his mini-gang, Mike Newman and Doc Lawrence, that it’s not the time to leave town or lie low. So the robberies continue.

Printing History

Written by Frank Kane (1912-1968)

Dell Publishing Co

B125

April 1959

The Lady Regrets by James M. Fox

Black Room Murder In Los Angeles....

Cover by Victor Kalin

Major John C. Marshall has been discharged. He and his wife are in a hotel in Los Angeles. In the lobby he overhears two cops at the desk asking for him. He goes back to the room and he and Suzanne get out of there. They go to see Henry Fleming, a PR man for the very wealthy Wilton Havers to find out what’s going on.

Printing History

Written by James M Fox

Dell Books

#338

1949