Dedicate this to my 81 year old dad and all the writers he'd proscribed: Yendamuri, Malladi, Yerrmasetti Sai, Madhu Babu; Rajesh Kumar, Suba, Sujatha; James Hadley Chase, RaymondChandler, and Robert Ludlum.
Sorry dad, but I read all of them when I was in school. And that helped.