A Death In The Life
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the gritty, neon-lit underbelly of New York City, a world where desperation and danger walk hand in hand, A Death in the Life plunges readers into a murder investigation that cuts to the heart of street life, survival, and the desperate choices made in the shadows. Julie Hayes, an aspiring writer trapped in an unfulfilling marriage, finds herself drawn into the dangerous orbit of Times Square's prostitutes and petty criminals when she witnesses a murder — and her relentless pursuit of the truth forces her to confront a world far removed from her own privileged existence. With the keen instincts of an amateur sleuth and the courage of someone with little left to lose, Julie unravels a mystery that implicates corrupt power structures and the forgotten women society refuses to see. Dorothy Salisbury Davis, one of the most respected voices in American crime fiction and a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America, writes with a sharp moral intelligence and a deep compassion for the marginalized. Her prose is precise and unadorned, yet charged with an atmospheric tension that makes every scene crackle with authenticity. This, the first in the celebrated Julie Hayes series, argues compellingly that justice is not merely a legal matter but a deeply human one — leaving the reader to wonder just how far one woman will go when the law refuses to act.
Author: Dorothy Salisbury Davis
Format: Hardback
Published: 1976, Charles Scribner's Sons
Genre: Crime fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the gritty, neon-lit underbelly of New York City, a world where desperation and danger walk hand in hand, A Death in the Life plunges readers into a murder investigation that cuts to the heart of street life, survival, and the desperate choices made in the shadows. Julie Hayes, an aspiring writer trapped in an unfulfilling marriage, finds herself drawn into the dangerous orbit of Times Square's prostitutes and petty criminals when she witnesses a murder — and her relentless pursuit of the truth forces her to confront a world far removed from her own privileged existence. With the keen instincts of an amateur sleuth and the courage of someone with little left to lose, Julie unravels a mystery that implicates corrupt power structures and the forgotten women society refuses to see. Dorothy Salisbury Davis, one of the most respected voices in American crime fiction and a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America, writes with a sharp moral intelligence and a deep compassion for the marginalized. Her prose is precise and unadorned, yet charged with an atmospheric tension that makes every scene crackle with authenticity. This, the first in the celebrated Julie Hayes series, argues compellingly that justice is not merely a legal matter but a deeply human one — leaving the reader to wonder just how far one woman will go when the law refuses to act.