Dorothy Cannell, a mother of four, grandmother of ten, and owner ot a King Charles Spaniel, was born in England and moved to the United States when she was twenty. Alter living in Peoria, Illinois, for years, she and her husband recently moved to Belfast, Maine. Her first Ellie Haskell novel. The Thin Woman, was selected as one of the 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Twentieth Cenrury by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. This is her eleventh mystery featuring Ellie, whom Bootlist describes as “part Miss Marple, part modern British mum.”