Fast Times, Big City

Like most people, Bud Palmer felt this was just another day. Though the era was drawing to a close, he assumed his life as a sports columnist in the subtropics, in keeping with the benign fifties itself, would go on as predictable as ever. But that particular autumn morning he was thrust into a caper that was totally beyond him, forced him to leave Miami and take the train to Manhattan, and suddenly found everything in this restless "Big Apple" was up for grabs, on the brink, at a dicey turning point.

Shelly Frome is a member of Mystery Writers of America, a professor of dramatic arts emeritus at UConn, a former professional actor, and a writer of crime novels and books on theater and film. He also is a features writer for Gannet Publications. His fiction includes Sun Dance for Andy Horn; Lilac Moon; Twilight of the Drifter; Tinseltown Riff; Murder Run; Moon Games; The Secluded Village Murders; Miranda and the D-Day Caper; and Shadow of the Gypsy. Fast Times, Big City is his latest foray into the world of crime and the amateur sleuth.

He lives in Black Mountain, NC.