Robert W. Gregg, former professor emeritus of International Relations at American University in Washington DC has been published a number of times in his professional capacity. Upon retiring, he moved permanently to Crooked Lake and embarked upon his second career as a novelist. Shortly before his death, the 10th (and final) installment of his work was released as an ebook (only) shortly before his death.

Full of local color and panache, he writes of his second home with the deep love of a long life in the region. There have been no "real" murders on Crooked Lake, but the region has long been inhabited and the ghosts of many who have died suddenly and violently walk the hills and hollows of the Catskills.