{"product_id":"the-hospital-murder-case-by-means-davis-paperback","title":"The Hospital Murder Case, by Means Davis (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA string of deaths in the same bed at a hospital may mean murder! A nurse volunteers to spend the night in the bed to investigate...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[MURDER WITHOUT WEAPONS, by Means Davis is] an alternative classic that I wish I’d known about when I was writing the [Gun in Cheek] books; I could have done an entire chapter on it and THE HOSPITAL MURDERS, which I’ve also since read.\" -- Bill Pronzini\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeans Davis was the pen name of Augusta Tucker Townsend (1904-1999), a best-selling author who brought national attention to the Johns Hopkins Medical School with the novel Miss Susie Slagle’s. A daughter of the Deep South, the former Augusta Tucker moved to Baltimore during the Depression to be part of a literary circle that included Gerald Johnson, Ogden Nash, R. P. Harriss and H. L. Mencken. Besides novels and short stories, Mrs. Townsend also wrote a guide, It Happened at Hopkins: A Teaching Hospital, and more than 300 newspaper and magazine feature articles, book reviews and opinion-editorials.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wildside Press LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43184952082641,"sku":"9781479427352","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/5981\/5377\/files\/9781479427352_FC.jpg?v=1784118668","url":"https:\/\/startlingstories.us\/products\/the-hospital-murder-case-by-means-davis-paperback","provider":"Startling Stories","version":"1.0","type":"link"}