Miss Melville Rides a Tiger [Mass Market Paperback]

Evelyn E. Smith (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 23, 1992

Asked by loathed schoolmate Begum of Gandistan to join the board of the Rundle Home for Wayward Girls, high-class killer Susan Melville becomes involved in an international dispute and a bizarre and deadly chase. Reprint.

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From Publishers Weekly

As witty and deadly as in earlier appearances ( Miss Melville's Revenge , et al), freelance assassin and socialite artist Susan Melville here takes on an international drug cartel. The head of a secret government organization needs a female hitperson to eliminate the reclusive Begum of Gandistan, mother of the ruling sultan. After initially declining the job, Miss Melville changes her mind when she comes face to face with the Begum and recognizes the haughty woman as her old enemy Berengaria "Berry" Rundle. The Begum, it seems, is setting up a global drug distribution system to export Gandistan's main crop, opium, using New York's Rundle House for unwed mothers as a front. Miss Melville's challenge is to devise a plan that will allow her to do away with Berry and get away herself. As in her previous books, Smith aims pithy barbs at fashionable New York society and those who take it seriously.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Kirkus Reviews

A fourth outing for 50-ish Susan Melville (Miss Melville Regrets, etc.)--painter, heiress, respected member of old-line society, and ex-hired-gun. Now affluent, Melville kills only when the spirit moves, which it does when she discovers that old enemy Berry Rundle has been, for decades, the Begum of Gandistan, the world's largest producer of opium poppies, and is the power behind the throne of her son, American-educated King Serwar. Begum and son are visiting New York--the Begum's true identity still literally under wraps--supposedly in connection with Rundle House, a charity supporting unwed mothers whose board of trustees is suddenly awash with the names of big-league mobsters. The Begum lets Melville know that she has her own hit list and Melville is numero uno--a revelation that leads to a high-noon chase and shoot-out in Bloomingdale's. Miss Melville has become a played-out, charmless bore, in a story silly beyond words. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 215 pages
• Publisher: Fawcett (December 23, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0449221059
• ISBN-13: 978-0449221051
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #836,047 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars New York Lampooned, April 17, 2000

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Loretta B. Deloggio "the mystery muncher" (Seattle WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Miss Melville Rides a Tiger (Mass Market Paperback)

Miss Melville and Miss Manners have a lot in common -- they both hold courtesy to be an obligation and propriety to be an art. But only Miss Melville has to decide the appropriate response to a death threat! And where else but in Miss Melville's New York would Mafiosi, Middle Eastern royalty, and our resident artist share a tea at a home for pregnant teens and chat about the problems of the residentially impaired? With wittier-than-usual writing and better-developed characters, "Miss Melville Rides a Tiger" is one of the best in the series.