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Title: Where the Dark Streets Go

Author: Dorothy Salisbury Davis

Narrator: Joe Knezevich

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-07-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

Hailed by Mary Higgins Clark as one of the best mystery-suspense writers, Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis presents a spellbinding tale of passion and deadly deceit that begins with a dying mans mysterious last words. Father McMahon is struggling to write a sermon when a boy runs into his office. A man in his tenement is dying, the boy says, and it is too late for a doctor or the police. In the basement of the apartment house, Father McMahon kneels beside the blood-soaked man, who has been stabbed with a knife. The man asks for no absolution. He wants to talk of life, not death, and takes to his grave the identity of his killer - and his own. No one in the neighborhood - not his lover or his friends - knows the mans real name, where he came from, or why someone would want to kill him. But in his final minutes, he reveals one clue that sends Father McMahon, a cop, and a wealthy young woman down New Yorks dark streets, where a killer is waiting to strike again.

Members Reviews:

Takes Itself Very Seriously, But Rather Dull

Book Club Review

Where the Dark Streets Go

Dorothy Salisbury Davis

Our book club's book for September was Where the Dark Streets Go, by Dorothy Salisbury Davis. We chose this book because there has been a book making the rounds among us, Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives, which is an anthology of short stories by women writers of suspense. Several of us liked the Davis story included in it, so we found our way to Where the Dark Streets Go. (It is tough to find online, but many of our libraries had a copy.)

It is late 1960s New York City in a rough neighborhood. A local priest, Joseph McMahon, is called to the side of a dying man who has been stabbed. The priest forges a bond in a brief time with the victim, and he finds himself being drawn into the investigation.

We had an excellent discussion about this book. I think many of us were surprised by how hard-boiled and frank it is. There are mature discussions and treatments of sexuality, competition and bad feelings among competing ethnic groups in the neighborhood, wealth and income disparity, and even the priest's crisis of faith as he finds himself falling in love with the murdered man's ex-girlfriend.

And yet, at the end of the day, this was not a book that we particularly enjoyed. Most of us agreed that we didn't care for it, and we spent a lot of time dissecting the reasons. The plot is really rather basic and isn't carried along by any detective or sleuthing work. Rather, information just drops into the characters' laps when the author is ready to reveal it. There's no sense of urgency about the story, no real surprises, nothing out of the ordinary.

The bigger problem, we thought, was the writing. It is rather muddy while taking itself very seriously. Equally problematic: The people in this book aren't people; they are characters who declaim, represent, and symbolize. Many of them speak as if they are in a book by Ayn Rand (i.e., they don't converse so much as pontificate and try to impress with their depth). For this reason, it was hard to really care about any of them.