Douglas Hall was born in Toronto, Canada, where he went to school and graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in Business. He was employed by IBM Canada as Senior Press Officer before embarking on a television career which spanned thirty-three and a half years on air as anchor and panellist. A number of Hall's shows were syndicated in Canada and the US. He travelled extensively on TV assignments to Russia; Europe; the US; Haiti; Iraq; Egypt and Israel. Hall's twenty-seven published books include eighteen mysteries, five novels, three children and one historical. He is now writing Murder Confirmed, another Paul West Mystery, his twenty-eighth. Hall is a Writer's Guild of Canada Life Member, long-standing member of ACTRA and former member of the Toronto Mens Press Club.