ANDREW MCALEER is the author of Appearance of Counsel, the Afterword to the Edgar Award-winning biography, Rex Stout: A Majesty's Life, and the well-received P.I. novel, Double Endorsement. The editor of Crimestalker Casebook, Mr. McAleer is an active member of the Private Eye Writers of America and the Mystery Writers of America. He has contributed to numerous publications including The Strand, Mystery Scene, Hardbroiled, Mystery Time, The Baker Street Dispatch, Whitechapel Journal, Futures, The Lizzie Borden Quarterly, and The Gazette: Journal of The Wolfe Pack. His legal essays include a critical analysis of the Lizzie Borden Grand Jury and the History of Suffolk Law School. President of the Boston Authors Club, Mr. McAleer practices criminal law privately in Massachusetts and teaches The Master Sleuths at Boston College. He is the 2003 winner of the Speckled Band's Sherlock Holmes Revere Bowl Award.