Michael Senuta is a retired English teacher. An avid Sherlockian, he co-founded the Inverness Capers, the Sherlock Holmes society of Akron, Ohio, and served as its president for twenty-four years. He has given over 300 lectures on Sherlock Holmes. He has been a short story writer of westerns and mysteries for many years. Incident at Copper Creek is his first published novel. He lives in Barberton, Ohio.