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Prize-winning mystery writer Dorothy Salisbury Davis has died at the age of 98.

Her books include the bestselling A Gentle Murderer and numerous other works praised for their psychological suspense.

Long-time friend Laurie Ferguson said that Davis died at the Esplanade at Palisades, a senior residence facility in Palisades, New York, last Sunday. She said Davis had been in failing health for months.

Davis’s husband, actor Harry Davis, died in 1993. They had no children.

A native of Chicago, Davis was nominated several times for the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Award, and was named an MWA Grand Master in 1985.

Her other books included The Little Brothers and Shock Waves.

Her stories were often anthologised, most recently in the 2013 release Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives.

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