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Why did it take me so long to find this author?! I have just finished reading all four available Miss Melville books, laughing all the while. You don't have to be a native New Yorker to appreciate Smith's sly puncturing of the pretensions of the upwardly mobile sheep who grab onto anything that seems to be the latest fashionable, upscale trend. You probably don't have to have been raised to behave "properly" to catch the humor in the now self-imposed behavioral restrictions the heroine cannot shake. And if you have been frustrated by all the crime and injustice in the world today, you are going to enjoy the thoroughly (or is it?) preposterous way in which Miss Melville settles with the despicable. The ending of the fourth book, Miss Melville Rides a Tiger, is a bit far-fetched, but that is the only time in all four books that the far-fetched isn't totally fetching.

Start with the first in the series, Miss Melville Regrets: it's so well-plotted. And when you finish the fourth, please do me a favor: contact Penguin Books and beg them to publish number five, Miss Melville Runs For Cover, which they have announced for publication at least three times since 1993 but have not yet managed to do.


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Miss Melville Regrets Evelyn E Smith 9780449212592 Books Reviews

I lost my original copy in a domestic disaster. This copy was the same edition as my original and was like new.
It was easy to find the author and ordering was straight forward. Book was in great condition for the price.
Very very funny and not a little cynical
I love these Miss Melville stories. I can't believe that there are not more of them. This one I had purchased as a gift because I refuse to part with my only copy even as a loan!

The idea behind them is hysterical and they are so well written! Evelyne E. Smith, where are you?

Bring more on! Connie
wish there were more of these
I read all the Miss Melville books back in the mid nineteen eighties and I am delighted to find copies of the books. I enjoyed reading Miss Melville Regrets once again and found it to be as entertaining the second time around. The characters are well presented and highly entertaining. I won't give away the plot and the outcome but I think almost anyone would enjoy the Melville books.
She goes to a hotel, avoids people like her, in fancy dress, who are rating prospective association dinners, and then the speaker at the not-very-good meal is dead.

And the little old lady "sells" the painting she's just created to a handsome man -- for a lot of money. And hands him the gun she's just used.

So goes the life of a professional hit-woman who blundered into the job.

Fun reading -- her rationalizations (the victim is always somebody loathsome); her painting; her associates, some of them good friends, some snobs, some dinner-crashers. And the tension when one part of her life merges into another.

You'll smile all the way through.
Why did it take me so long to find this author?! I have just finished reading all four available Miss Melville books, laughing all the while. You don't have to be a native New Yorker to appreciate Smith's sly puncturing of the pretensions of the upwardly mobile sheep who grab onto anything that seems to be the latest fashionable, upscale trend. You probably don't have to have been raised to behave "properly" to catch the humor in the now self-imposed behavioral restrictions the heroine cannot shake. And if you have been frustrated by all the crime and injustice in the world today, you are going to enjoy the thoroughly (or is it?) preposterous way in which Miss Melville settles with the despicable. The ending of the fourth book, Miss Melville Rides a Tiger, is a bit far-fetched, but that is the only time in all four books that the far-fetched isn't totally fetching.

Start with the first in the series, Miss Melville Regrets it's so well-plotted. And when you finish the fourth, please do me a favor contact Penguin Books and beg them to publish number five, Miss Melville Runs For Cover, which they have announced for publication at least three times since 1993 but have not yet managed to do.