Professor Alan Dale Dickinson is a retired Vice President and Business Banking Manager, World Corporate Lending Group, Bank of America (the largest bank in the Nation). He was born and raised in and around LA (Los Angeles, California) and that makes him a Native son. He will not however, tell you in what year he was born, so do not even bother to ask! He has written and published eleven mystery/suspense crime/fiction novellas on Amazon (print and eBooks) that are sold in twelve foreign countries all around the world. While Professor Dickinson was working at the great Bank of America, he made a one hundred million dollar working-capital-line of credit to the sweet Hershey Chocolate Company; a seventy-five million dollar loan to the marvelous United Way Charitable Foundation; a hundred thousand dollar loan to purchase a luxurious motor home for John 'Duke' Wayne to be used for his dressing room while he was on the sets of his wonderful and exciting Western movies. He once had a bank office on the Queen Mary Ocean liner, permanently docked in Long Beach, California.