Independent voices from the TWT Communities
Ruth Cavin, a longtime and late-blooming editor at St. Martin's Press who worked on hundreds of mystery novels in a career that began in her 60s and became so revered she was unofficially known as the "First Lady of Mysteries" has died.
"Ruth would teach you without it feeling like teaching. Every conversation was with an equal; every relationship was collegial," Shatzkin wrote Monday on his blog, http://www.idealog.com/blog