Robert HainesBob Haines is a retired patent attorney who grew up in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., escaping in the mid seventies to attend college at Florida Institute of Technology. Earning a B.S. in biology, he returned to the D.C. area where he landd a temporary clerical job at a local patent law firm. He went to law school at night while working full time as an intellectual property researcher. Thirty-two years later he found himself able to retire from the practice of law and return to the sunshine and warmth of coastal central Florida. Now, Bob grows mangoes on two trees, makes a yummy jam and killer chutney from the fruit, is researching how to make a mango liqueur and tends his orchids (apologies to Rex Stout and Nero Wolfe) while thinking up new and interesting characters, stories and ways to eliminate people. Read More Read Less