Wayne A. Walter’s choice of Long Beach, California as the venue for the first of the Sid Street Mystery series wasn’t just happenstance. Wayne, as a young boy, was living in the city of Long Beach as early as the mid-1940s. And although a graduate of the University of Redlands, he attended both Long Beach City College and California State University at Long Beach. Today Wayne and his spouse, Carolynn, make their home in the mountains of central Arizona, surrounded by the Tonto National Forest.