The Perpetrators

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Until these two perps came along, Dan’s life was just fine, thank you. Commit their faces and their hokey disguises to memory. And keep the kiddies indoors — you never know where these hoodlums will strike next.

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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 fath2275_1081559848013_2319_ner-in-law (yes, it’s a family job) when Pete realized he couldn’t string together a coherent sentence.  Pat was the ghostwriter of One Marshal’s Badge and is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism. (If you’ve got nothing else to do, visit his other website.)

These two collaborators were overjoyed to find a use for their encyclopedic knowledge of vaudeville routines, Abbott and Costello gags, and Marx Brothers sketches that kept them from disturbing the adults at family gatherings. All the superfluous nonsense they perpetrated was done at poor Dan’s expense. There ought to be a law. . .


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