Clive Rosengren is a recovering actor. His career spanned more than forty years, eighteen of them pounding many of the same streets as his fictional sleuth Eddie Collins. He appeared on stages at the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, the Guthrie Theater, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, among others. Movie Credits include Ed Wood, Soapdish, Cobb, and Bugsy. Among numerous television Credits are Seinfeld, Home Improvement, and Cheers, Where he played the only person to throw Sam Malone out of his own bar. He lives in southern Oregon's Rogue Valley, safe and secure from the hurly-burly of Hollywood. Rosengren has written five books in the Eddie Collins Mystery series: Murder Unscripted, Red Desert, Martini Shot and Velvet on a Tuesday Afternoon. Books one and two were both finalists for the Shamus Awards, sponsored by the Private Eye Writers of America. Visit him at his website, www.cliverosengren.com.