Cottrell, Charlie

Charlie Cottrell is a high school history teacher who started writing on a whim and found he couldn't stop even if he wanted to. Inspired by the works of Dashiell Hammet, Terry Pratchett, and Ellery Queen, he finds himself fascinated by the hard-boiled detective genre and wondering what would happen if you took that and mixed it with a hefty dose of humor and near-future tech. The result is the Hazzardous Materials series, a collection of novellas, short stories, and novels about Eddie Hazzard, a down-on-his-luck private eye trying to clean up the streets of Arcadia and keep himself in booze m...