“The Go-to Guy for Forensic Psychology”

It took a week after the death of private-eye novelist Benjamin M. Schutz for The Washington Post to print an obituary. And now, almost a month after the passing of Schutz, the award-winning creator of Washington, D.C., private eye Leo Haggerty (Embrace the Wolf, 1985), the paper has finally published a nice long remembrance of the novelist. It sounds like Schutz was a fiend for note-taking, recording so much of his life for use in his fiction. Says his elder son, Jakob, “Dad was the poster child for yellow legal pads.”

The full Post piece can be found here.