Melodie Johnson

Melodie Johnson Howe born October 23 1943 is an American actress and author She became interested in writing at a young age and wrote several short plays that went unpublished She studied at the University of California Los Angeles in creative writing Yet in 1965 she embarked on an acting career in Hollywood She appears in episodes generic several television series including The Virginian It Takes a Thief Bewitched and Mannix She also landed small roles in film especially in Coogans Bluff 1968 Don Siegel alongside Clint Eastwood and bootleggers Wars 1970 Richard Quine with Patrick McGoohan and Richard Widmark It ended his acting career in the early 1980 Under her married name Melodie Johnson Howe she published a few years apart Shadow The Mother 1989 and Beauty Dies 1994 two thrillers putting Directed by Claire and Maggie Conrad Hill two female detectives who maintain professional relationships similar to those prevailing between Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin the heroes of Rex Stout In 2011 she published Shooting Hollywood 2011 a collection of stories that tell the adventures of Diana Poole former actress in her forties looking to resume his career and still is forced to solve criminal cases which continue to divert his art In 2013 seems City of Mirrors the first book devoted to this new heroine