About Stan Smith

Stan Smith (more formally known as Stanley E. Smith) grew up reading Sherlock Holmes and the Professor Fordney mystery puzzles of Austin Ripley, as well as Donald Sobol’s Encyclopedia Brown series and Two-Minute Mystery series. He also enjoyed the works of Raymond Smullyan. Stan created the character of Thomas P. Stanwick shortly after graduating (like his amateur detective) from Dartmouth College, but it was some years before he got serious about publishing Stanwick’s adventures in deduction.

Stan was raised principally in Massachusetts, where he now lives, but he has also lived in Connecticut, Ohio, Vermont, and New Hampshire. He has worked as an insurance salesman, an auto dealership auditor, a banker, an educational publisher, a certified municipal treasurer, and a copywriter, while continuing to write mini-mysteries and other works.

In addition to his bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth, he picked up an MBA degree from Cornell and spent an agreeable semester as an exchange student at the London Business School.

His published books include not only the Five-Minute (Stanwick) series with Sterling Publishing, but also The Sacred Rules of Management: How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Work (VanderWyk & Burnham, 1997). He is also the editor of The Thinking Machine Omnibus by Jacques Futrelle (Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 2003) His works have been published in English, German, Spanish, Hungarian, Swedish, Slovak, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Korean, and Danish.

Unlike his friendly but solitary sleuth, Stan is happily married (to Julie) and has two children. He shares Stanwick’s interest in chess and logic, and also enjoys studying Lincoln, Churchill, parliamentary law, theology, and history. An active member of Mystery Writers of America and Mensa, Stan was recently heard to remark that writing Stanwick mini-mysteries was “even better than winning a good rook ending.” Each finds his own pleasures in life.

You can contact Stan at stan(AT)stanwick-mini-mysteries.com.(The AT should really be a @, but writing it this way should help foil spammers -- I hope!)

You can also visit Stan's website on copywriting here.

Stan's "lost classics" publishing site, Mental Master Publications, can be reached by clicking here.