I am a retired policeman and have been a private detective for 15 years. I started writing in 1987 while I was still a policeman. I researched and co-wrote a nonfiction book about a lynching that took place in Pekin, Illinois in 1869 when it was still the edge of America's frontier. After that I wrote a fictional version of the same incident and went on to write another fiction called Greenhorns and Killer Mountains as well as five screenplays. Most of this was the result of meeting film director Virgil W. Vogel in 1990 during the filming of Mario and The Mob in Chicago staring Robert Conrad a more...
