William Cheevers

William Cheevers writes historical fiction with themes of contemporary interest and mysteries featuring Chicago private investigator Frank Lydecker in the transitional world of the 1950s. He is the author of two historical novels ("The Able Seaman's Mate" and "In Every Way That Matters"), two volumes of Lydecker short stories and four Lydecker mystery novels (Labyrinth, In The Matter of Megan Pfeiffer, Girl on a Bicycle and The Compton File). William's favorite writers are Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad, Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Hemingway, Faulkner, Hammett and Chandler, Doris Kearns Goodwin, David McCullough, Jean Edward Smith and Cormac McCarthy and two of the people from history he most admires are Mark Twain and Albert Einstein.