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Dirk Wyle is the pen name of Duncan H. Haynes, Ph.D., a 30-year veteran of biomedical science. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania and in Germany and has served as a medical school professor, conducting research in abnormal blood coagulation and drug delivery, and holding numerous grants and contracts from the Federal Government, charitable organizations and the pharmaceutical industry. Over his academic career he published 85 original research papers. He also holds numerous patents in the major industrialized countries, protecting drug microencapsulation technologies which he invented.
This led to the founding of three companies employing approximately 65 people. He retired as a professor in early 2001.
Dirk Wyle approaches the mystery/thriller novel as a work of serious literature. His literary goal is to tell an exciting story by fleshing out the skeleton of the traditional mystery with the muscle and sinew of biomedical science. His stories (Pharmacology Is Murder, 1998; Biotechnology Is Murder, 2000; Medical School Is Murder, 2001; and Amazon Gold, 2003) take place in authentically rendered medical centers and drug companies. His free-spirited protagonist, Ben Candidi, accepts the dual challenge of finding the murderer and discovering what made him (or her) do it in the first place. Considering guns to be overused devices, Dirk gives literary preference to methods that could fool a coroner but not a dedicated mystery buff. Dirk has lived in Miami since 1973. His interests include the South Florida waters, multiculturalism, technology's impact on human psychology, the uses and misuses of science. He received the Icon Award from the National Writers Association (S. FL chapter), he is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, and his Pharmacology Is Murder was selected as the Best First Mystery of 1998 by Joe's Detective Pages. |