Epilogue
George Henderson graduated third in his class the spring of 1952. No basketball scouts offered him a scholarship. No academic scholarship offers were made. Having no hope of further education, he joined the Marines. After basic training, he was sent to the frontlines in South Korea where he served with distinction until his left leg was badly wounded. George came home with a Purple Heart and a bum leg. No longer able to play basketball, George enrolled in the Indiana University School of Business under the GI Bill. Sometimes, even with a bum leg, he had to hitchhike the 20 miles to Bloomington, but people driving the route to work became familiar with George and picked him up regularly.
George graduated from college in the spring of 1957. His proud father, Frank, and his grandfather, Charlie, were on hand to see him receive his diploma. After working for the Internal Revenue Service a few years, George met the owner of one of the largest stone quarries in Indiana. They became friends and often attended sporting events together. He offered to help George start his own business and George took him up on his generous offer becoming one of the top sports agents in the country.
Eventually, he was able to build his dad and grandfather a nice house with three bedrooms, two baths, and a two car attached garage with a door. Frank attached a basketball hoop firmly above the garage door for the neighborhood kids, but he was most proud of the black Cadillac George bought him so he could drive to the Reds’ games in comfort.
George was confident he had been redeemed in the community’s eyes. On one of his family visits, Minnie Pierce, a now elderly neighbor, waved and yelled hoarsely as he was leaving, “Is that you Wrong-Way George?”
George grimaced and waved, got in his car and drove away.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Sherita Saffer Campbell is a great-grandmother, poet, mystic, psychic and mystery writer. She has been published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Fate Magazine, Branches, Sagewoman, Humpback Barn Festival, Country Feedback, and the anthologies Racing Can Be Murder and Bedlam at the Brickyard. She facilitates a poetry workshop, a Just Journaling writing group and a fiction critique group in Muncie, Indiana where she lives. “Hoosier Business,” is the story of a small town sheriff who takes care of his town by protecting it from the “evil” gamblers outside of town and looking after the “good” gamblers in town. Sherita is writing a book about the sheriff.
Diana Catt teaches microbiology and does field testing in environmental microbiology. She is married and has three adult children and one grandchild. She loves to write and read. She thinks she should increase her intake of dietary fiber and stick to her exercise program. She is active in the local chapter of Sisters in Crime because the members are fun, wacky and interesting. Her fiction publication credits include: “Photo Finish,” Racing Can Be Murder, Blue River Press, 2007; “Evil Comes,” Medium of Murder, Red Coyote Press, 2008; “Boneyard Busted,” Bedlam at the Brickyard, Blue River Press, 2010; “Au Naturel,” Patented DNA: A Catastrophic Clone Collection, Pill Hill Press, 2010; “And Through the Woods,” Back to the Middle of Nowhere, Pill Hill Press, 2010; “Salome’s Gift,” Murder to Mil-Spec, Wolfmont Press, 2010; “Slightly Mummified,” A Whodunit Halloween, Pill Hill Press, 2010; “The Art of the Game,” Hoosier Hoops and Hijinks, Blue River Press, 2013
M. B. Dabney is an award-winning journalist whose writing has appeared in numerous local and national publications such as The Indianapolis Star, NUVO, Indianapolis Monthly magazine, the Indianapolis Business Journal, EBONY magazine and Black Enterprise.com. A member of Sisters in Crime since 2008, his short story, “The Missing CD,” appeared in the racing anthology Bedlam at the Brickyard in 2010. Michael’s novel, An Untidy Affair, was a quarter-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award in 2011, and he recently completed a suspense novel set in New York. He lives in Indianapolis with his wife, two daughters and their dog, Pluto.
Brandt Dodson is the creator of the Indianapolis-based Colton Parker series as well as the author of several stand-alone novels including The Sons of Jude, September, 2012. All his novels are available in physical as well as ebook formats. Brandt was born and raised in Indianapolis and comes from a long line of police officers on both sides of his family, extending back to the 1930’s. Brandt was employed by the Indianapolis office of the FBI and served for eight years as a United States Naval Reserve Officer. He teaches and lectures at writer’s conferences across the country and is a practicing, board-certified Podiatrist specializing in the surgical treatment of peripheral neuropathies. He lives with his wife and son in southern Indiana. “Requiem in Crimson,” is Colton Parker’s first short story appearance. Follow Brandt on Facebook and Twitter and contact him at www.brandtdodson.com.
Terence Faherty is the author of two mystery series. The Scott Elliott private eye series is set in the golden age of Hollywood and is a two-time winner of The Shamus Award, given by the Private Eye Writers of America. The Owen Keane series, which follows the adventures of a failed seminarian turned metaphysical detective, has been nominated twice for the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Allan Poe Award. His short fiction, which appears regularly in mystery magazines and anthologies, has won the Macavity Award from Mystery Readers International. His work has been reissued in the United Kingdom, Japan, Italy and Germany. Terry lives in Indianapolis with his wife, Jan.
Sara Gerow grew up in Crawfordsville and Mishawaka, Indiana. She graduated in journalism from Indiana University. She has worked in New York and Washington D.C. as a production editor and freelance copy editor. “Breaking and Entering,” is her first published fiction.
Sarah E. Glenn specializes in stories involving out-of-the-ordinary heroes and circumstances, usually with a sidecar of funny. All This and Family, Too, her first novel is a tale of a vampire’s tribulations with her homeowner’s association. Her short stories run the gamut from horror to mystery to science fiction. She contributed “New Age Old Story” to Fish Tales, the first Sisters in Crime Guppy anthology. Sarah has a BS in journalism from the University of Kentucky. Teddy and Cornelia, the nurses in “The Odds Are Always Uneven,” were inspired by Sarah’s great-great aunt who served in the Army Nurse Corps at Brest during World War I and is a family legend due to her intrepid nature and stubborn personality. Sarah belongs to the Short Mystery Fiction Society and several Sisters in Crime chapters including the Ohio River Valley Chapter, the Speed City Indiana Chapter, and the Sisters in Crime Guppies chapter. She and her co-author, Gwen Mayo, are working on a novel featuring the ladies and Uncle Percival. Follow Sarah at www.sarahglenn.com.
Marianne Halbert is an attorney from central Indiana who lives with her husband, two daughters and a chocolate Labradoodle. Her stories have been published in magazines such as ThugLit, Necrotic Tissue, and Midnight Screaming as well as anthologies from The Four Horsemen, Evil Jester Press, Wicked East Press, Pill Hill Press, Blue River Press and more. Ms. Halbert’s biggest influences are The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock, Shirley Jackson and Stephen King. She was a panelist at AnthoCon 2011 and 2012, and her YA novel, Honorable Scars, was a quarter-finalist in the 2012 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, The Short Mystery Fiction Society and the Horror Writers Association. Marianne recently released her first collection, Wake Up and Smell the Creepy, which New York Times best-selling author Rick Hautala described as “a wonderful collection…Marianne Halbert has writing chops to spare.” Follow her at https://halbertfiction.webs.com or at Halbert Fiction on Facebook.
S.M Harding has had two dozen short stories published in various crime fiction publications, both on-line magazines and in print anthologies. Two of the most recent include “A Snake in the Grass” in Spinetingler and “Warriors Know Their Duty” in Murder to Mil-Spec from Wolfmont Press. She’s taught classes at the Writers’ Center of Indiana and participated in panels for their annual “Gathering of Writers.” She edited and contributed an essay to Writing Murder, a collection of essays by Midwestern authors abou
t writing crime fiction and available at indianawriters.org.
Delonda (Dee) Hartmann has written seven plays that have been produced in Indiana, including Bells, the Musical, a play about teachers. She wrote theater reviews for The Muncie Star for 15 years and got to see some great plays (and some not so great). She taught college classes for Ball State University in various Indiana prisons for 19 years. As a motivational speaker, she has spoken in 38 states and over 1,000 times at high schools. She lives in Muncie with three Yorkies. The oldest is 19, weighs four pounds, has only three legs and serves as a constant inspiration. Dee teaches English for Ivy Tech.
Suzanne Leiphart is a past president of the Speed City Indiana Chapter of Sisters in Crime. In her story, “Deadly Bet” in Hoosier Hoops and Hijinks, a recent Lottery winner discovers that the deadliness of the Chicago mob is interwoven with Indiana high school basketball and coaching. Leiphart’s short thriller, “Roadkill,” appears in the anthology, Bedlam at the Brickyard. Watch for her Deadly ebook series of romantic suspense including Deadly Rich and Deadly Powerful. Originally from Michigan, Dr. Leiphart is a psychologist in Indianapolis, Indiana. She has published several nonfiction and spiritual articles.
M.E. May lives in the Far Northwest Suburbs of Chicago with her husband, Paul, and their white Husky, Iris. She has spent most of her life in Indianapolis, but met her husband ten years ago and moved to the Chicago area. Her son, daughter, and four wonderful grandsons live in central Indiana. M.E. attended Indiana University in Kokomo studying Social and Behavioral Sciences. Her interest in the psychology of humans sparked the curiosity to ask why they commit such heinous acts. Other interests in such areas as criminology and forensics inspired her to write crime fiction. Her novel Perfidy was honored by colleagues at the Love is Murder Conference in Chicago, receiving the 2013 Lovey Award for Best First Novel. Currently she is writing a series of novels involving the IMPD which she calls the Circle City Mystery Series. M.E. is an active member of the Mystery Writers of America Midwest Chapter, Speed City Indiana Sisters in Crime, Sisters in Crime Chicago, and In Print, an affiliate of the Chicago Writers Association.
Gwen Mayo is a history junkie. Her writing is steeped in the rich history of her native Kentucky. Circle of Dishonor, her first published novel, and the upcoming sequel, Concealed in Ash, are set during the turbulent political upheaval of post Civil War Kentucky: a time when vigilantes and secret societies wielded power, and violent death was more common in Kentucky than anywhere else in the United States. She currently lives and writes in Tarpon Springs, Florida, but grew up in a large Irish family in the hills of eastern Kentucky. Gwen is a graduate of the University of Kentucky, a member of the Historical Novel Society, Golden Crown Literary Society, The Short Mystery Fiction Society, and Sisters in Crime, including the Ohio River Valley chapter, the Speed City Indiana Chapter, and the Sisters in Crime Guppies Chapter. Her stories have appeared in anthologies, at online short fiction sites, and in micro-fiction collections. In 2008 she teamed up with co-author Sarah E. Glenn to write mystery stories, one of which appears in Hoosier Hoops and Hijinks. They have since formed Mystery and Horror, LLC and are collaborating on a new mystery novel set in the Roaring Twenties. Contact Gwen at www.gwenmayo.com.
Barbara Swander Miller has taught high school English for fifteen years, working with a wide range of students from remedial through honors, and 7th to 12th grades. She has taught university dual credit university classes through Ball State University and Ivy Tech Community College. Barb holds a B.A. in English Education and an M.A. in Secondary Education from Ball State University. She is currently finishing her license in High Ability Education from Purdue University. Barb is very active in the Indiana Writing Project and is a member of the National Council of Teachers of English and the Indiana Association for the Gifted. Barb is a Toyota International Teacher Program Alumnus, a Korea Academy for Educators Fellow, a US Department of State Teaching Excellence and Achievement Recipient, and a Lilly Teacher Creativity Fellow. She has traveled to Japan, India and Peru to collaborate with teachers and helped Indiana educators implement Writing Workshop in their classrooms. Barb is the author of numerous non-fiction works. She lives with her husband and three of their five children and spends much of her time grading papers and encouraging young people to write.
Tony Perona is the author of a mystery series featuring stay-at-home dad/freelance investigative reporter, Nick Bertetto, who has a knack for solving mysteries with a supernatural element. The three books in that series are Second Advent, Angels Whisper, and Saintly Remains. He has also written the stand-alone thriller, The Final Mayan Prophecy. Perona served as co-editor for the mystery anthology, Racing Can Be Murder, which was a finalist for the 2008 Indiana Book of the Year. Perona serves as the communications manager for the Town of Plainfield, is an elected official of Guilford Civil Township, and works as a freelance writer and editor. He is a member of Mystery Writers of America and has served the organization as Midwest Chapter President and as a member of the national board. He is also a member of Sisters in Crime.
D.B. Reddick, who also writes under the pseudonym, Joan Bruce, has had a dozen short stories published. He is a former newspaper reporter/ editor and college journalism instructor who has worked for the past 15 years at a national insurance trade association in Indianapolis. He plans to retire soon and work full-time on some novels, including one about the Shortridge boys. He and his wife, Rebecca, live in Camby, Indiana where they enjoy spoiling their two grandchildren in their spare time.
Native Chicagoan Andrea Smith holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, and a master of arts in novel writing and publishing from DePaul University in Chicago. Smith has published four short stories featuring Chicago police detective Ariel Lawrence, including “A Lesson in Murder,” featured in the mystery short story anthology Women on the Case, edited by Sara Paretsky and published by Delacorte. “A Lesson in Murder” earned this praise: “Of the writers introduced for the first time, American Andrea Smith stands out with her sharp plotting and terrific new Chicago police woman, Ariel Lawrence.” Alison Burns, Highbury and Islington Express, United Kingdom. Smith’s other short stories featuring the tenacious Chicago detective include: “Fatal Flaw,” Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine; “Elected to Die,” Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine; “Race to the Rescue,” Racing Can Be Murder, Blue River Press; “Tarnished Legacy,” Bedlam at the Brickyard, Blue River Press. Andrea is the current president of the Speed City Indiana Chapter of Sisters in Crime. She’s also a member of Romance Writers of America, and Kiss of Death, a romantic suspense online writers group. She served on MWA’s Edgar Awards committee judging the young adult mystery category.
Brenda Robertson Stewart, a graduate of Indiana University, has been an English teacher, horse breeder, professional painter, sculptor, forensic artist specializing in clay facial reconstruction of skulls, ghost writer, editor and author. Power in the Blood, the first in a forensic mystery series and a finalist in the St. Martin’s first novel contest, was published in 2005. She has short stories published in Derby Rotten Scoundrels, Silver Dagger; Low Down and Derby, Silver Dagger; Racing Can Be Murder, Blue River Press, a finalist for Best Book of Indiana 2008; Bedlam at the Brickyard, Blue River Press; Hoosier Hoops and Hijinks, Blue River Press. She is the co-editor of Racing Can Be Murder, Bedlam at the Brickyard, and Hoosier Hoops and Hijinks. Brenda is a member of the United Federation of Doll Clubs, the Original Doll Artists Council of America (ODACA), the American College of Forensic Examiners, Romance Writers of America, the Short Mystery Fiction Society, the Speed City Indiana Chapter of Sisters in Crime, and the Ohio River Valley Chapter of Sisters in Crime. She speaks at many writers conferences and libraries across the country explaining and demonstrating clay facial reconstruction. Collecting primitive antiques and researching the paranormal are of particular interest to Brenda. She is a wife, mother, and grandmother and resides in central Indiana. She is one of the founders of
the Speed City Indiana Chapter of Sisters in Crime.
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