About the Author

Ever restless, Roger L. Simon has spent his life moving between books and movies, gaining distinction in both. In books, he is best known for the seven Moses Wine detective novels, which have won prizes in the U.S. and Great Britain and been published in over a dozen languages. In film, most prominent among his six produced screenplaysincluding his adaptation of The Big Fixis Enemies, A Love Story, for which Simon was nominated for an Academy Award. THE STRAIGHT MAN is his fifth novel."