David Justice, Ph.D., is the author of The Semantics of Form in Arabic and a collection of short stories about the Murphy Brothers, I Don't Do Divorce Cases. He was editor of Etymology and Pronunciation at Merriam-Webster, and Editor-in-Chief at Franklin Electronic Publishers. His short stories have appeared in Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. He is currently working as a linguist. To read selected stories from I Don't Do Divorce Cases and new short fiction visit his blog at: http: //murphybros.blogspot.com