About the Author

Michael Mayo (b. 1948) has written about film for the Washington Post and the Roanoke Times. He hosted the nationally syndicated radio programs Movie Show on Radio and Max and Mike on the Movies. Mayo is the author of American Murder: Criminals, Crime, and the Media and the Jimmy Quinn Mysteries, which include Jimmy the Stick (2012) and Everybody Goes to Jimmy’s (2015). He lives in North Carolina.