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A recent request from my publisher prompted me to write a short story version of the Spencer Manning mysteries. An

Spencer Manning is a private investigator. He solves mysteries. So far he’s solved them all. But  then I have some

I recently played a concert with the Elgin Community College jazz band (trumpet). One of the  tunes was Miles Davis’

In the fifth book of the Spencer Manning series (the working title is A Frame for Joey), Carol’s son, Billy, discovers

Thomas Midgley was a chemist and inventor who held over one hundred patents. What he is best known for—and no

My last blog left Thomas Midgley having solved the engine knock problem by adding leaded gas to the world’s troubles.