Miss Melville's Revenge
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To everyone's surprise (her own most of all), our Miss Melville has become a darling of the New York City art world, and her paintings are selling like hotcakes. But you know, she does still like to keep her hand in. After all, when you're good at something, you want to keep doing it, with or without a financial motivation.
Besides which--this time it's personal. Susan's father, you may recall, disappeared many years ago into South America. True, he took the Melville millions with him, which irritated Susan no end. But he was her dear papa, and when she discovers that he was murdered for his money, Susan's trigger finger starts to twitch. It is possible to hold both a gun and a paintbrush. And it's a terrible sin to let a skill go to waste.
Evelyn E Smith
Evelyn E. Smith was born and lived out her life in New York City. She had two passions--for art and for cats of all sizes. She liked to claim that she wanted a lion until she realized how much they cost to feed, and she made her living as an editor, most notably running the features department at Family Circle magazine. Though she wrote four beloved Miss Melville books, she may be better known as the author of several novels and numerous short stories in the sci-fi genre; she also wrote a number of gothic romances under a pen name, and two non-fiction books on (ahem) practical witchcraft. Smith died in 2000, at the age of 77, in her beloved New York City.
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