Old Sinners Never Die, Paperback by Davis, Dorothy Salisbury, ISBN 1480460435, ISBN-13 9781480460430, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
<div><div><div><b>Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis brings back the beguiling character Major General Ransom Jarvis in this third Mrs. Norris Mystery, a prequel, which immerses the redoubtable crime-solving Scottish housekeeper in a murder investigation in the nation’s capital</b></div><br>With a new president in the White House, Major General Ransom Jarvis suspects that his retirement from the US Army is imminent. But at Washington’s annual invitation-only Beaux Arts Ball, the decorated soldier becomes an unwitting pawn in a far-reaching conspiracy. It begins when Ransom meets Virginia Allan, a beautiful blonde with secrets. And there is something decidedly shady about Frenchman Leo Montaigne.<div><br>As Ransom starts to uncover damning intel about DC’s most powerful movers and shakers, the town is suddenly rocked by murder. Now Ransom’s son, Jimmie, a freshman congressman, and his housekeeper, Mrs. Norris, are risking their necks as they conduct their own fact-finding mission in a city rife with patriots, spies, and deadly political wannabes.</div><div><i><br>Old Sinners Never Die</i> is the third novel in Dorothy Salisbury Davis’s Mrs. Norris Mysteries, which also include <i>Death of an Old Sinner</i>;<i> A Gentleman Called</i>, a finalist for the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Award; and “Mrs. Norris Observes,” a short story in the collection <i>Tales for a Stormy Night</i>.</div></div></div>