Other Queen works set in the town of Wrightsville and exploring the same milieu include Calamity Town (1942), Ten Days' Wonder (1948), Double, Double (1950), The Last Woman in His Life (1970), and the short stories "The Robber of Wrightsville," "The Gamblers' Club," "Death of Don Juan," "The Wrightsville Heirs," "Mum is the Word," and "Eve of the Wedding."

Although the individuals in The Last Woman in His Life are essentially stereotypes, they are interesting as representative of certain human behavior. The primary force driving most of the characters to action is greed. The three exwives, Audrey the actress, Marcia the show-girl, Alice the nurse, along with Sanford Effing the lawyer, Foxy Faulks the gambler, and the many women trying to establish themselves as Laura, Johnny's "true love," are motivated only by their desire for wealth. As a result they are accorded little respect or admiration. Interestingly, the novel's villain...