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The Original Gone Girls: Dorothy Salisbury Davis and Other Forgotten Pioneers of Crime Fiction

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Before Gillian Flynn and Tana French, a whole generation of women writers were pioneering psychological thrillers every bit as good as the crime fiction of Raymond Chandler and Dashiel Hammett. Sarah Weinman, editor of the new anthology Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives, meets Dorothy Salisbury Davis, the last survivor among the trailblazers of domestic suspense.

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