Miss Melville Rides a Tiger Author:Evelyn E. Smith The impeccable Miss Melville returns in a scintillating adventure that tops all her previous forays. Enjoying a total immersion in her artistic career, Miss Melville is between jobs, doing what society women do, charitably supporting the Rundle Home for Wayward Girls-and resisting an invitation from the government to assassinate the power-hunge... more »ry Begum of Gandistan, a ruthless woman whose sone has just ascended to the throne following the unforunate deaths of his father and all of his siblings.
Miss Melville has her own depply personal reasons for finally capitulating to official entreaties to underake this paricular covert assignment, and she has also developed a fondnesss for the young Sultan, ralizing that he is an unwitting pawn in his mother's dangerous political games. As the chase begins, Miss Melville is unaware of the amazing cast of characters who will be drawn into her deadly endeavor and its shattering denouement.« less