My Favorite Mystery Authors and Why -- Part I

If I haven't mentioned it before -- and I think I have -- I am an inveterate reader. I love books and have since my first grade friend, Stevie Jo (short for Stephanie Joyce), took me to the Toledo Public Library branch near our school and the librarian gave me a card for my mother to sign so I could get books, too. That librarian didn't know that she was creating a monster. From that day forward