When Kentucky Monthly Magazine published my short story, Leaves of Departure, in 1998, they asked me if I was working on anything else and I told them I was working on my first detective novel. It was an idea which floated around in my head for years. I grew up loving the Rockford Files, Columbo …
THE ROCKFORD FILES -- Pictured: James Garner as Jim Rockford -- (Photo by: Fred Sabine/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank) The 1970s were a golden age for television, especially for the detective genre and I was a regular viewer. Among the many classic shows of that era, five were my favorites: The Rockford Files, Mannix, Barnaby Jones, Cannon, …
Tony Acree 