Robert Traver (1903-1991), the pseudonym for John D. Voelker, was an associate justice of the Michigan Supreme Court when his novel "Anatomy of a Murder", later made into the classic movie with Jimmy Stewart, rocketed him to national fame. Soon afterward, in his mid-fifties, he quit the bench in order to write & fish & hunt morels near Ishpeming, Michigan. His eleven books include "Hornstein's Boy", "The Jealous Mistress", "Anatomy of a Murder", & "Small Town D.A."