Charles Kelly formerly was a reporter for The Arizona Republic. During his reporting career, he found missing heirs, investigated the 1976 bomb murder of Republic reporter Don Bolles, and helped a wrongly convicted tugboat captain get out of a Mexican prison. Kelly is the author of the biography Gunshots in Another Room: The Forgotten Life of Dan J. Marlowe. He also wrote Pay Here, a novel published by Point Blank Press, and the short story "The Eighth Deadly Sin," published in the collection Phoenix Noir, issued by Akashic Books. His novel, Grace Humiston and the Vanishing, was a finalist in the 2012 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest. When Kelly's self-help book, Finnegan's Way: The Secret Power of Doing Things Badly, was first offered free for two days, it was downloaded by 8,000 readers. Kelly's website is hardboiledjournalist.com and his e-mail address is pulpnoir22@aol.com.