As a kid, Tom started reading mysteries with the Hardy Boys, Ken Holt and Rick Brant, and graduated to the classic stories by authors such as A. Conan Doyle, John Dickson Carr, Erle Stanley Gardner and Rex Stout, to name a few. To has written fiction as a hobby all of his life, starting in marble-backed copybooks in grade school. He built a career as a writer, doing technical writing, science writing and editing for nearly thirty years in industry and government. Now that he’s truly on my own as a freelance science writer and editor, he’s excited to publish his own mystery series as well. Follow Tom on Facebook at https: //www.facebook.com/3MDetectiveAgency/, on Twitter @3Mdetective or email me at tom@3mdetectiveagency.com to get all the news about Nattie and 3M, as well as Tom’s other writing projects.