<link href="css/hmh.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:9ad84f75-de55-4afb-8ce5-f6ad72bcbcb8" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body> <h1 class="backtitle chapnum">About the Author</h1> <p class="left ">E<span class="smallcaps">D</span> McB<span class="smallcaps">AIN</span> (1926–2005) held the Mystery Writers of America’s prestigious Grand Master Award and was the first American to receive the Diamond Dagger, the British Crime Writers’ Association’s highest award. He was the author of more than one hundred books.</p> </body> </html>