Sally J. Ling is known as Florida's History Detective and is an author, speaker and historian. She writes historical nonfiction and adult and children's historical fiction, specializing in little known or fascinating stories about Florida history. As a special correspondent, she wrote for the Sun Sentinel newspaper for four years and was a contributing journalist for several South Florida magazines. Based upon excerpts from her book Run the Rum In, Sally appeared in two TV documentaries ("Gangsters"--National Geographic Channel and "Prohibition and the South Florida Connection"--WLRN, Miami).