He also wrote numerous travel articles for various magazines, appearing as a regular contributor to "Holiday Magazine" from 1948 to 1968. In 1968, David and Elva settled in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Elva died on October 17, 1973. David died less than a year later on August 8, 1974. They are both buried in San Miguel. Although a writer by profession, Dodge's true love was travel. He was fond of explaining that while many writers traveled in order to gather material to write about, his goal was to write in order to gather money to travel. In 2005, Hard Case Crime reprinted Dodge's second Al Colby novel, "Plunder of the Sun", and in 2006 published his last completed novel, "The Last Match". The manuscript, which remained unsold at the time of his death, was discovered among his papers. Bruin Books reprinted "Death and Taxes" and "To Catch a Thief" in 2010, "The Long Escape" in 2011, and "Carambola" in 2016.