About the Authors
As the creator of historical mysteries with her Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, Anne Perry is indisputably one of the world's most popular mystery writers. She lives in a small fishing village on the remote North Sea coast of Scotland.
Barbara Paul has a Ph.D. in Theatre History and Criticism and taught at the University of Pittsburgh until the late seventies when she became a full-time writer. She has written five science-fiction novels and sixteen mysteries, six of which are in the Marian Larch series. A new Marian Larch will be out in 1997, titled Full Frontal Murder.
Gillian Linscott is the author of six mysteries featuring suffragette Nell Bray. The latest, Dead Man's Sweetheart, will be published in 1996. Formerly a parliamentary reporter for the BBC, she currently writes full time. Linscott lives with her husband, also a writer, in their three-hundred-year old cottage in Herefordshire, England.
Gwen Moffat was born in 1924. She is a crime novelist living in the English Lake District. A mountaineer, she sets her stories in the backwoods, from the Scottish Highlands to the Rockies and south-western deserts. Her series characters are the urbane and formidable Miss Pink, and Jack Pharaoh, ex-Mountain Rescue, prickly, and battered by family disasters and a bad fall.
Loreti D. Estleman is the author of thirty-seven books, including the Amos Walker detective series, several westerns, and the Detroit historical mystery series: Whiskey River, Motown, King of the Corner, Edsel, and Stress. His first Sherlock Holmes pastiche, Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula, has been in print for eighteen years.
Jon L. Breen has written six mystery novels, most recently Hot Air (1991), and over seventy short stories; contributes review columns to Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and The Armchair Detective, was shortlisted for the Dagger Awards for his novel Touch of the Past (1988); and has won two Edgars, Two Anthonys, a Macavity, and an American Mystery Award for his critical writings.
J.N. Williamson is a titular-invested member of the Baker Street Irregulars, and has been since he was nineteen. A long-time Holmes fan, he started writing and publishing articles on Sherlock Holmes when he was fourteen. A full-time writer now, he has thirty-seven novels and over one hundred and fifty short stories to his credit, as well as editing the acclaimed four-volume anthology series Masques.
John Stoessel has been a chemist, musician, scientific consultant, and investigator before turning to writing, particularly about Holmes and Watson. He has written three mystery novels, The Vatican Affair, The Oyster Affair, and The Vladivostok Affair, and is currently finishing The Great Western and Atlantic Affair, all featuring Holmes and Watson with classic Victorian backdrops. John lives in Duluth, Minnesota, with his wife and four children.
William L. DeAndrea has won three Edgar Allan Poe Awards from the Mystery Writers of America, for the novels Killed in the Ratings and The Hog Murders and for the reference work Encyclopaedia Mysteriosa. He lives in Litchfield County, Connecticut, with his wife, mystery writer Jane Haddam, and their two sons.
Bill Crider is the author of more than twenty mystery, western, and horror novels as well as numerous short stories. Too Late to Die won the Anthony Award for favourite first mystery novel in 1987, and Dead on the Island was nominated for a Shamus Award as best first private-eye novel.
A multi-genre author of thirty-two novels, Carole Nelson Douglas writes about the only woman to outwit Sherlock Holmes, Irene Adler, in four novels beginning with Good Night, Mr. Holmes, a New York Times notable book. She trades deerstalker for cat-ears to record the cases of feline sleuth Midnight Louie, winner of two 1995 Cat Writers' Association awards: best cat novel for Cat in a Crimson Haze, and a special short story citation.
Reginald Hill has written more than forty novels, including the well known Dalziel and Pascoe series. He has won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year, has been shortlisted for the MWA Edgar, and in 1995 was awarded the CWA Carder Diamond Dagger for outstanding contribution to the genre. He lives quietly in Cumbria, England, with his wife, Pat; their cats, Pip and Matty; and his conscience.
Edward D. Hoch, past president of the Mystery Writers of America and winner of the Edgar award for best short story, has published nearly eight hundred short stories and forty books. His stories have appeared in every issue of Ellery Queen since 1973. He and his wife live in Rochester, New York.
Carolyn Wheat's fourth Cass Jameson mystery, Mean Streak, was published in May 1996. "The Adventure of the Angel's Trumpet" introduces Cass's spiritual ancestor in the person of barrister Kevin O'Bannion (a cousin of John Dickson Carr's Patrick Butler). An Adventuress of Sherlock Holmes, Carolyn's investiture is The Penang Lawyer (Hound).