Jack Grochot is a retired investigative newspaper journalist and a former federal law enforcement agent specializing in mail fraud cases. He has contributed stories to magazines and anthologies, both nonfiction and fiction, and he has written two other books - Come, Watson! Quickly! and Beware, Watson! Danger!, each a collection of Sherlock Holmes adventures. Grochot lives on a small farm in southwestern Pennsylvania, USA, where he writes and oversees the care of boarded horses. The author is an active member of Mystery Writers of America and can be contacted by e-mail, grochot@comcast.net.