Mysterious Days: 19 May

1932
Paul E. Erdman (May 19, 1932 - April 23, 2007 in Sonoma County, California) , Swiss banker imprisoned briefly for the failure of his bank in 1969, turned mystery writer, is born in Stratford, Ontario. The result of his first prison writing attempt was the Edgar-award winning financial mystery The Billion Dollar Sure Thing (1973). His next novel, The Silver Bears (1975) was a fictionalized version of the events that led to his imprisonment.

The Billion Dollar Sure Thing (1973)
The Silver Bears (1974)
The Crash Of '79 (1976)
The Last Days Of America (1981)
The Panic Of '89 (1986)
The Palace (1987)
The Swiss Account (1992)
Zero Coupon (1993)
The Set-up (1997)