FFB: Fool's Gold

Edward John "Ted" Wood, was born in Sussex, England in 1931 and served in the RAF during the Second World War. In 1954 he emigrated to Canada and was a Toronto police officer for three years before switching to advertising and copyrighting. The dual law enforcement/writing experience prompted him to pen several published crime fiction (and non-genre) short stories and a teleplay.



His first novel was Dead in the Water in 1984, a police procedural that won the Scribner's Crime Novel Award and...