There are a couple reasons I got into this.

1) I like good detective stories. 

2) I like good mysteries (not always the same thing).

3) I like good stories, period.

4) Once in a while you have to push yourself, even as a writer, and do something that neither you nor anyone else thought you might try. I've written several "hardboiled" mystery stories in the past but all of them had some other element- scifi, fantasy or both-…

new here. sort of new to this genre although not as a reader.

normally i do monsters, aliens, elves, spies, super heroes and that sort of thing. I wanted to write some things set in the actual  world. so there's a thing coming up in ELLERY QUEEN and there's the ebook, first of four.

and there's me talking about it, from time to time.

thanks for the use of the hall.