Peter Buckman was one of the youngest editors in publishing and is now one of the oldest literary agents still working. In between he was a full-time writer, producing books, plays, scripts for films, television and radio, articles and reviews. The Pumpernickel Mysteries are his first crime series, and feature a quartet of characters in their seventies (including the dog) who are still working, still learning, and still enjoying leisure and pleasure. Peter and his wife Rosie have lived in the same Oxfordshire village for over fifty years: they have two daughters, two grandchildren, and a black cockerpoo called, amazingly, Pumpernickel.