Miss Melville Regrets Author:Evelyn E. Smith From front jacket: Meet Miss Melville, the flip side of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. A middle-aged lady of refinement, impeccable taste and breeding, her dwindling finances signal a drastic call to action. Never one to meet a problem in any direction other than head-on, Miss Melville, heaven forfend, decides to take a job! Hiring herself ou... more »t as a freelance assasin, she uses her patrician air and still operative female wiles to hold herself above suspicion as she moves freely through upper crust society, knocking off important personages and visiting dignitaries, for a most pleasant fee, and best of all, with firm knowledge that all these rascals deserve precisely what they get.« less