ABOUT THE AUTHOR

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=185 BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="45eb9642eearkz.png"> <div> <IMG SRC="40882820.png" border=0 width="130" height="130" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="HOME"><U><IMG SRC="41b2c1a0.png" border=0 width="44" height="26" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ABOUT HIPPOT"><U><B><IMG SRC="4236c1a0.png" border=0 width="108" height="26" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id11.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="HIPPOT FAQS"><U><IMG SRC="41c2c1a0.png" border=0 width="44" height="26" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE COMPLEAT HIPPOT"><U><IMG SRC="41daa1a0.png" border=0 width="170" height="26" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id12.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FREE DOWNLOADS"><U><IMG SRC="4af5e1b0.png" border=0 width="94" height="27" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id8.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="CONTACT US"><U><IMG SRC="421591b0.png" border=0 width="89" height="27" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="COPYRIGHTS"><U><IMG SRC="422a41a0.png" border=0 width="164" height="26" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <B>Copyright 2014</B></div> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=65 BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="43710411eearkz.png"> <div> <B><IMG SRC="453a5230.png" border=0 width="165" height="35" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=415 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <IMG SRC="15df0280.png" border=0 width="240" height="40" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="06637df0.png" border=0 width="311" height="223" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="50" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#660000" FACE="Century Gothic" ><B>From his home</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Century Gothic" ><B> </B></FONT><B>at Wit's End Cottege, near the village of Great Tow in Wiltshire, UK, P.E. ("Pem" or "Pemmy") Marston chronicled the adventures of Hercule Hippot through his </B><A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ABOUT HIPPOT"><U><B>correspondence with their mutual friend Colonel Archibald Pastings </B></U></A><B>and in occasional interviews with the Great Detective himself.</B></div> <div> <B>Over a span of a decade or more, Marston catalogued dozens of Hippot's most famous cases, along with his own reminescences of Hippot's life and times. These writings were </B><A HREF="id11_how_were_the_hippot_stories_discovered_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="HIPPOT FAQS"><U><B>recently discovered </B></U></A><B>in a cupboard at the University of Great Tow and are now being painstakingly restored and offered for the enjoyment and appreciation of connoisseurs of the Golden Age of the detective story. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>An iconoclast by nature and a scientist by profession, Marston's writings included such spellbinding titles as "The Qualitative Determination of Molecular Weight in Vinyl Chloride Compounds by Infra-red Spectrophotometry." A long-time fancier of pigeon racing, Marston also contributed many articles to such prestigeous publications as </B><I><B>Wessex </B></I><I><B>W</B></I><I><B>ing Weekly </B></I><B>and  </B><I><B>Pigeon Digest .</B></I><B> During this period he also maintained correspondence with American writer Raymond Chandler, with whom he shared a disdain of agents and publishers. It is for this reason that Marston's work has been largely overlooked until recently.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Aside from his literary accomplishments, Marston is probably best known today for having invented a type of refrigerator that turns newspaper into lettuce. These machines are now widely used in the fast food industry.</B></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>