Jack Grochot is a retired investigative newspaper journalist and a former federal law enforcement agent specializing in mail fraud cases. He lives on a small farm in southwestern Pennsylvania, where he writes and cares for five boarded horses. His fiction work has appeared in Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine and in an e-book anthology of Sherlock Holmes pastiches, both published by Wildside Press of Rockville, Maryland. Besides newspaper stories, Grochot has co-authored and edited a nonfiction book, Pittsburgh Characters, published by The Iconoclast Press of Greensburg, Pennsylvania. The author, an active member of Mystery Writers of America, can be contacted by e-mail:
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