Donald J. Sobol was born in the Bronx, New York on October 4, 1924. During World War II, he served in the Army as a sergeant in a combat engineer battalion in the Pacific. He received a B.A. degree from Oberlin College. He worked as a copy boy and then a reporter at The New York Sun and The Long Island Daily Press. In 1959, he began writing a syndicated fiction column called Two-Minute Mysteries. He is the creator of the Encyclopedia Brown series. His first book, Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective, was published in 1963. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 80 books. In 1976, he won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for the Encyclopedia Brown series. He died from gastric… lymphoma on July 11, 2012 at the age of 87.
K. Eckland is an acute care nurse practitioner with extensive experience in cardiothoracic surgery - in and out of the operating room. Now she shares her findings from her latest investigation into the medical tourism industry, and services available in Bogota, Colombia. Albert Klein, PharmD is a clinical pharmacist specializing in in-patient pharmacology and pharmacotherapeutics. He currently lives and works in North Carolina. This is their second collaboration.Foreward by Dr. Peter K. Smith, MD is the Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Duke University, which is consistently rated as one of the top ten programs nationwide for cardiac surgery.