Raleigh, Michael: - Michael Raleigh is the author of ten previous novels. These include the coming-of-age novel In the Castle Of The Flynns (Sourcebooks 2002), the comic adventure The Blue Moon Circus (Sourcebooks 2003), and a five-book mystery series featuring private investigator Paul Whelan (St. Martin's Press). Most recently, Raleigh has published The Conjurer's Boy (Harvard Square Editions 2013), Peerless Detective (Diversion Books 2015), and Murder in the Summer Of Love (Epicenter 2021). Michael lives in Chicago, where he teaches first year writing in the Honors Program at DePaul University. He has taught at DePaul since 2007 and in 2019 was named Distinguished Professor by the Honors Program. Prior to DePaul, he taught English and Chicago History at Truman Community College. He is married and has three grown children. He has been a stock boy, a bartender, a microfiche maker, a bank-teller, fund-raiser and manager of social programs for the Salvation Army, and liaison officer for the Chicago Department of Human Services. Michael is currently a member of the Mystery Writers of America and the Society of Midland Authors. When he is not writing or grading papers, Michael raises tomatoes, practices archery, watches English mysteries with his wife and works on his lock-picking skills.