Mel Starr was born and grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. After graduating with a MA in history from Western Michigan University in 1970, he taught history in Michigan public schools for thirty-nine years, thirty-five of those in Portage, MI, where he retired in 2003 as chairman of the social studies department of Portage Northern High School. Mel and his wife, Susan, have two daughters and seven grandchildren.
“Hugh de Singleton is a delight… the well-crafted plot, the excellent period detail and the flashes of humour.” -- Donna Fletcher Crow, author of The Monastery Murders “Dances along, taking you with it all the way… exciting mystery, delightful historical detail – a tale well told. I loved it.” -- Penelope Wilcock, author of The Hawk and the Dove trilogy