Buddy, Can You Spare A Crime?

For several years, Martin Villas has been one of San Fran-cisco’s homeless and unemployed citizens, undertaking odd jobs when offered and eaking out a living selling the Street Sheet. Then, when two friends are killed—one another homeless person and the other an apparent member of the financial community—it’s up to Martin to discover who...and why... After all, sometimes a bum just has to do what a bum has to do… Buddy is the first title in the Street Crimes series, followed by Little Girl Lost and Crime du Vin with a fourth title -- Short Case -- in preparation.

Ex-Navy Air Crew and electronics expert, Ben returned to college for a ten-year stint collecting multiple majors in Math and Sciences as well as one in Arts and by correspondence, a BS degree in Computer Sciences. During his college career, Ben was an antiquarian book dealer but later began traveling (both throughout the US and abroad) while publishing more than two dozen books on computer programming. Tiring of writing about computers, Ben became a software design engineer and has two patents to his credit. Now retired (medically disabled, DAV), Ben lives in the Pacific North-west, in a temperate rain-forest jungle on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula accompanied by Mary, his lover for a half-century and his companion/nurse and sometimes boss, Keiser, a miniature Schnauzer and Medic Alert Service Dog with a penchant for challenging (and winning against) bears. When not overloaded with other projects – and there always seem to be other projects – Ben enjoys crafting mysteries which have backgrounds and plot divergences not commonly found in the genre but which are all authentic and drawn from a long and varied career in several fields and countries.