In the 1950s, she moved to Los Angeles. She published four novels after "Night Shift", then apparently stopped writing. However, after her death, a manuscript was found stored in her refrigerator. (The refrigerator was a place where the manuscript would likely survive a house fire.) She had completed it in the early 1970s, but it was not published. Her family took the manuscript to Scribner, which published it in 2005 as "Sudden Rain".
