Donald Sutherland Bain was born in Mineola, New York on March 6, 1935. He received a bachelor's degree from Purdue University and served in the Air Force as a lieutenant. He worked as a ghostwriter for over five decades. His first book was a history of stock car racing written under the name of a Nascar executive. He pseudonymous wrote the Murder, She Wrote novels and Margaret Truman's Capital Crimes mysteries. He also wrote the fictional memoir Coffee, Tea or Me?, Lights Out, Charlie and the Shawneetown Dame (originally published as War in Illinois), and Murder, He Wrote (originally published as Every Midget Has an Uncle Sam Costume). He died from congestive heart failure on October 21, 2017 at the age of 82.
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