Elizabeth C. Bunce is the Edgar Award-winning author of the Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery series following an irrepressible young sleuth’s misadventures in Victorian criminology, most recently Cold-Blooded Myrtle (October 2021). She lives in Kansas City, where she and her tolerant husband recently celebrated their twenty-fifth anniversary. An accomplished seamstress and needleworker, Elizabeth spends a great deal of time stabbing things with sharp objects.