<b>Peter B. Smith</b> lives with his wife on Quadra Island, BC where he retired after a 37-year career as an award-winning newspaper crime reporter. After working on <i>The News</i> in Portsmouth, England for 21 years, he immigrated to Calgary in 1987. Here he worked for the <i>Calgary Sun</i> for a further 16 years, retiring in 2003. He has written two true-life crime books for Heritage House, and while in England he wrote books on sea-angling, the fire department and stamp collecting.