Jerry Masinton, an emeritus Professor of English at the University of Kansas, is the author of two critical studies-Christopher Marlowe's Tragic Vision and J. P. Donleavy: The Style of His Sadness and Humor. He has also published numerous essays on modern and contemporary American literature. From the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s he reviewed books for The Kansas City Star. He and his wife Martha, an editor and former publisher of technical journals, head up a writing group in Lawrence, Kansas called Write-On. They have two daughters, nine grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter. Wrong Man Down is Masinton's first novel. It is followed by Who's Who Among the Dead, featurenig Millie Henshawe, the tough, gay, super-cool assassin who works for Continental Removals LLC in Boston, a niche firm with a very specialized clientele. All three are marked by dark humor, complicated plots, punchy dialogue, and an original cast of characters.