In the Still of the Night (25 page)

Born in Chicago in 1916, she grew up on farms in Wisconsin and Illinois and graduated from college into the Great Depression. She found employment as a magic-show promoter, which took her to small towns all over the country, and subsequently worked on the WPA Writers Project in advertising and industrial relations. During World War II, she directed the benefits program of a major meatpacking company for its more than eighty thousand employees in military service. She was married for forty-seven years to the late Harry Davis, an actor, with whom she traveled abroad extensively. She currently lives in Palisades, New York.

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Missing in Manhattan
, Longmeadow Press.

“Now Is Forever” Copyright © 1994. First appeared in
Justice in Manhattan
, Longmeadow Press.

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, ed. by Sara Paretsky, Delacorte Press.

“Justina” Copyright © 1989. First appeared in
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine.

“Christopher and Maggie” Copyright © 1989. First appeared in
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“The Scream” Copyright © 1998. First appeared in
Murder on the Run
, Berkley.

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Murder in Manhattan
, Wm. Morrow.

“Miles to Go” Copyright © 1997. First appeared in
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, ed. by Sara Paretsky, Delacorte Press.

Copyright © 2001 by Dorothy Salisbury Davis

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