The author is a retired Vice President of Buffalo State College, married, father of five adult children. He is a former college varsity baseball player and a fifteen-year coach of youth baseball teams. He loves to read, he plays the organ for his personal pleasure only, and he loves to write.He has merged his business writing skills with his experience and his imagination to write a number of short stories for the amusement of his grandchildren, and for entry in story writing contests. He is now well into a second novel, another murder mystery.