[Mrs. Norris Mysteries 01] • Death of an Old Sinner

**A Grand Master of crime fiction, Dorothy Salisbury Davis introduces the redoubtable crime-solving Scottish housekeeper Mrs. Norris in this thrilling tale of family secrets and murder**

General Ransom Jarvis is writing his memoirs about a distinguished career that spanned five continents and three wars. Along the way, he stumbles upon a scandal about a philandering ancestor—America’s ambassador to England who went on to become president of the United States. But a very clear and present danger embroils the irascible retired general in a deepening quagmire of deceit, fraud, and murder. 

Enter Mrs. Norris, the housekeeper who has been almost a mother to Ransom’s son since he was a boy. Jimmie is currently running for governor of New York and enjoying his budding relationship with sculptor Helene Joyce. A sudden death changes everything, plunging Jimmie and Mrs. Norris into a bizarre case headed up by Jasper Tully, chief investigator for the Manhattan district attorney’s office. With more lives at stake, the trio follows lead after lead into a web of crime that only the canny housekeeper can clean up in the nick of time.

*Death of an Old Sinner* is the first novel in Dorothy Salisbury Davis’s Mrs. Norris Mysteries, which also include *A Gentleman Called*, a finalist for the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Award; *Old Sinners Never Die*; and “Mrs. Norris Observes,” a short story in the collection *Tales for a Stormy Night*.

***Death of an Old Sinner *is the 1st book in the Mrs. Norris Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.**