Louis "Pete" Conner is the instigator behind Another Vanishing Act. A retired engineer, Pete lives in a seniors' apartment building in New Jersey, where he invents comic situations and dreams up characters for the fictional tale he imagined. Pete is a graduate of Georgia Tech. Pasquale "Pat" Russo - a lifelong wiseguy - was summoned to assist his father-in-law (yes, it's a family job) when Pete realized he couldn't string together a coherent sentence. Pat is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism.