A prolific author of over 50 crime fiction, novels, and non-fiction books including his newest Farewell, Amethystine, Also Fearless Jones, Every Man a King and the Man in my Basement; and film adaptations of his works: Devil in a Blue Dress starring Denzel Washington; always outnumbered with Laurence Fishburne, and the Last Days of Ptolemy Grey starring Samuel L. Jackson.