Resume

• 1980

  truman college

  DePaul University Honors Program and Department of Writing

  Rhetoric and Discourse

  truman college

  Instructor

  DePaul University Honors Program and Department of Writing

  Rhetoric and Discourse

• 1969

  M.A.

  English

• 1965

  A.B.

  Engish

  History

• Program Development

  Student Affairs

  Writing

  Curriculum Development

  Higher Education

  Instructional Design

  Editing

  Course Creation

  Curriculum Design

  Proofreading

  Public Speaking

  Grant Writing

  Community Outreach

  Creative Writing

  Microsoft Office

  Nonprofits

  History

  Research

  Fiction Writing

  Teaching

  In the Castle of the Flynns

  Set in 1950s Chicago

  the story of young orphan Danny Dorsey and his raucous extended family

  an Irish-American saga.

  In the Castle of the Flynns

  The Rod-Serling style adventures of Thomas Faye

  who runs into a Chicago junk shop in 1962 and meets two mysterious men who change his life forever and set into motion an epic series of encounters and experiences.

  The Conjurer's Boy

  The second Paul Whelan mystery

  set in the Gold Coast of Chicago

  involving the murder of a businessman.

  A Body in Belmont Harbor

  The fourth Paul Whelan mystery

  set in Chicago's Vietnamese neighborhood and featuring a chameleon-like killer.

  A Killer on Argyle Street

  The fifth Paul Whelan mystery

  involving a 40-year -old unsolved mystery at Chicago's legendary Riverview Amusment Park.

  The Riverview Murders

  The rollicking adventures of a small-time circus in the American West

  circa 1926

  its hard-luck but indomitable proprietor Lewis Tully

  his magical friend Harley Fitzroy

  and a small cast of oddball performers.

  The Blue Moon Circus

  The third mystery featuring Uptown-based detective Paul Whelan

  and involving the murder of a Maxwell Street vendor and an interracial love affair many years earlier.

  The Maxwell Street Blues

  The first Paul Whelan mystery

  set in Uptown

  involving the murders of several homeless men.

  Death in Uptown

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