What can a woman do? Susan Melville's trust fund is dwindling, her teaching job is terminated, her lover is abroad for the season, and her apartment is going co-op. So naturally Miss Melville decides to shoot herself at a posh society party. Unfortunately, she misses—and kills the guest of honor instead. When she slips out the door, a stranger follows. He thanks her for doing the job for him, and Miss Melville's new career is born. Of course she has scruples. Miss Melville won't kill just anybody, but she's about to face a job that even she will find a challenge of the most dangerous order, an assignment she just might regret—for good ...

Quondam professional assassin Miss Susan Melville, now an equally successful artist, has the role of amateur sleuth thrust on her when she unintentionally stumbles upon arson, drug smuggling, and murder

With the art world no longer supplying the kind of excitement she craves, Miss Melville returns to her former occupation of assassin, and her public service killings go smoothly until the target is a former lover

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.

Aristocratic and philanthropic assassin Susan Melville sets out to terminate a former flame, Brad Robertson, a U.S. senator and presidential candidate who has become a ruthless international terrorist. Written in 1993. Only published in 2006.