I am a retired high-tech executive, having done business in 24 countries most recently in Asia, primarily throughout China. I have had three mystery short stories published with John Randall Brown, a retired high-tech executive turned professional mentalist. Think Thomas Crown as a fake psychic and a reluctant detective. My biography of Anna Eva Fay, The Indescribable Phenomenon, was published by Hermetic Press in Seattle. Magician Harry Houdini called AEF, "The greatest female mystifier"; while detective Allan Pinkerton called her "... a woman possessing a terribly fascinating power and capable of any devilish human accomplishment." They were both right. I have lectured on the history of mentalism and spiritualism at several venues from the Magic Castle in Hollywood and the Magic Circle in London, to the annual Meeting of the Minds of the Psychic Entertainers Association. I am an Associate of the Inner Magic Circle in London, and a member of the Order of Merlin of the International Brotherhood of Magicians. I have also written a number of non-fiction articles for magic and history magazines in America and Europe.