Margaret Sullivan: There Must Be Murder

Margaret C. Sullivan is the Editrix of AustenBlog.com, a compendium of news and commentary about Jane Austen's work in popular culture. She also created the website Molland's (www.mollands.net), a resource for Jane Austen fans. She is the author of The Jane Austen Handbook: A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World (Quirk Books, 2007) and contributed to the anthology Jane Austen Made Me Do It , edited by Laurel Ann Nattress (Random House, 2011). Margaret is a life member of the Jane Austen Society of North America.

At the age of 24, Cassandra finally changed her last name but is still entrapped in her famous sister's orbit, as you can see. (We shall get nothing more serious from her now...she is not in a sober mood.) A doodler since childhood, Cassandra Chouinard abandoned her painting studies to complete a master's degree in harpsichord performance at McGill University. Meanwhile, various stints as a street portraitist, student newspaper cartoonist, and vanity press illustrator attuned her eye to various details such as line, contour, and the all-too-quick approach of a deadline.