Chester D. Campbell

Chester D. Campbell has been writing in one form or another since attending the University of Tennessee, where he graduated in 1949 with a major in journalism. He worked as a newspaper reporter in Knoxville and Nashville, free-lanced articles for national magazines, worked in PR and advertising, edited a city magazine, was speechwriter for a governor. He also worked eighteen years as manager of a statewide trade association. He also served as an Air Force intelligence officer in the Korean War and was active in the Air National Guard, retiring from the Air Force Reserve as a lieutenant colonel. He turned to writing novels after retirement. Secret of the Scroll will be followed in the fall of 2003 by Designed to Kill, a mystery set on Perdido Key, FL. Campbell is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, Tennessee Writers Alliance and Tennessee Mountain Writers. He and his wife Sarah live in Madison, TN.