WILLIAM HEFFERNAN (1940-2020) was the Edgar Award-winning author of numerous novels, including the international bestsellers The Corsican and The Dinosaur Club, as well as The Dead Detective, The Scientology Murders, When Johnny Came Marching Home, A Time Gone By, Cityside, and Beulah Hill. Prior to turning to fiction, Heffernan was a New York City newspaper reporter who was nominated three times for the Pulitzer Prize.