Judy Starbuck is a teacher, mystery writer,  handwriting analyst, and  adoption search intermediary. Her short stories take you on mystery trips to Key West, FL, Charleston, SC,  Scottsdale, AZ and Mendocino. CA. Her various female characters fend off a Hemingway impersonator,  a drug dealer, a gambling addict, and a scam artist. How does a squeamish teacher create characters who find themselves in such harrowing situations? Fantasy? Multiple Personality Disorder? A Means of Escape? More likely the answer lies in the puzzle element of mysteries where the parts fit, logic prevails and justice is served.  And they all (sort of) live happily ever after.