Murder of a Modern Woman

About the Book

I had a job I didn't understand on a magazine I understood even less. The pay was okay, but I had no idea what I had to do to earn it. Did it include murder?

About the Author

After learning about words and books as a textbook salesman, comic book writer and advertising copywriter, Don McKinney spent 31 years as a magazine editor. He began with True, the leading magazine for men, spent seven years as articles editor for the Saturday Evening Post and the next 17 as Managing Editor of McCall's. He resigned to teach magazine writing at the University of South Carolina for 12 more years. He has written one book, Magazine Writing That Sells, and a few dozen short stories and articles. He was editor of The Good Life, a newspaper supplement in The Island Packet of Hilton Head, and has written a book review column for that paper since 1990. He has read, he estimates, some 600 mystery novels, from Dashiell Hammett to Elizabeth George and P.D. James, and has learned (and borrowed a little) from each of them. Born in Evanston, Ill., he has spent most of his life in Washington, D.C., New York, Connecticut,and various places in the South. He has two children and three grandchildren, and lives in Raleigh, N.C. This is his first novel.