Sally's in the Alley

Davis, Norbert

ISBN 10: 0915230461 / ISBN 13: 9780915230464

Published by The Rue Morgue Press, Boulder, CO, 2002

About this Item

Originally published in 1943. A fine copy. A mystery featuring Doan and his great dane Carstairs. ; Octavo.

Seller Inventory # 17430

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sally's in the Alley
• Publisher: The Rue Morgue Press, Boulder, CO
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0915230461
• ISBN 13: 9780915230464
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: First Printing.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mysteries and Thrillers

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Synopsis

Doan, a chubby, wisecracking private eye, and Carstairs, a Great Dane so huge he ought to be considered a new species, follow a trail of mayhem and confusion from Hollywood to the Mojave Desert town of Heliotrope, a place so thoroughly offensive that neither California nor Nevada will admit that it lies within its borders.

It’s 1943 and Doan is persuaded by government agents to sweet-talk the location of a valuable ore deposit out of an old desert rat with a mad-on for the government. But first they have to deal with a number of other equally odd characters, including film star Susan Sally, the very lovely and very wacky Harriet Hathaway, who’s about to become a WAAC, Doc Gravelmeyer, the sinister local medico who also doubles as an undertaker, and Mr. Blue, a man of mystery who claims he doesn’t even know there’s a war going on.

There’s plenty of action, including a wild chase through Hollywood studio backlots, and even more laughs, before Carstairs finally gets his man.his man.

Reviews

Norbert Davis committed suicide in 1949, but his incomparable crime-fighting duo, Doan, the tippling private eye, and Carstairs, the huge and preternaturally clever Great Dane, march on in a re-release of the 1943 Sally's in the Alley, the second book in the dog-detective trilogy. Doan's on a government-sponsored mission to find an ore deposit in the Mojave Desert, but he's got to manage an odd (and oddly named) bunch of characters Dust-Mouth Haggerty knows where the mine is but isn't telling; Doc Gravelmeyer's learning how undertaking can be a "growth industry"; and film star Susan Sally's days are numbered in an old-fashioned romp that matches its bloody crimes with belly laughs.
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