Evelyn E. Smith
Birth date: July 25, 1922
Died: July 04, 2000
Evelyn E. Smith's Books
This is my cover. I like it rather more. One advantage of re-reading for Bingo: I get around to finally writing up books I loved once upon a time. These books are every bit as charming as I recall. Miss Melville, like Miss Marple and an infinite string of other Misses of a certain age, is overlook...
Apparently suffering from acute nostalgia, I have lately found myself remembering books last read thirty years ago, and thinking of them fondly, and wondering were they really that good? Yes. Susan Melville is a middle-aged artist and Manhattan blueblood, without a job, without a fortune, in a r...
Good cozy mystery in the style of old school Golden Age crime fiction. This book was the second in the series of crime novels featuring Susan Melville, a paid assassin turned painter. The plot was good, nothing great but nothing to want to stop reading. In a way, it never offered much and made me sa...
Susan Melville grew up the privileged, wealthy daughter of New York blue-bloods, assured of her comfortable place in Society. But it's the 1980s, and the city has changed since Wharton's era. The Melville money is gone and Susan's rent-controlled apartment is being sold out from under her to form ...
I love a middle-aged assassin, especially one who has the taste and flair to only kill bad people.
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