Bag Men

About the Book

As the two young doctors start their practice on a shoestring in Putney Ridge, one becomes the Ast. Coroner. Amid the practice a series of seemingly-unrelated murders takes place. Solving the perpetrators of the murders almost costs both physicians their lives.

About the Author

Dr. Dick Mc Burney grew up in Cambridge, Ohio. He was graduated from Denison University in Granville, Ohio and then attended Western Reserve University Medical School. He spent five and a half years of graduate training in abdominal and thoracic at Cleveland City Hospital. He practiced medicine and surgery in Painesville and Willoughby, Ohio and for 26 years he served as the elected Lake County Coroner. He joined Diamond Shamrock Corporation full time in 1975 serving as Corporate Medical Director and later as Vice President of the Departments of Health, Industrial Hygiene Safety, and Environmental Affairs. In 1980 the corporate headquarters of Diamond were moved to Dallas, Texas, and the McBurneys built a new house at Las Calinas in Irving, Texas. He retired from Diamond in 1985. During his corporate days he and his wife, Paula, were able to travel extensively in the United State as well as Internationally. Paula and he raised running quarter horses during his practice years in the north living on fifteen acres of farmland in Mentor, Ohio. They owned a townhouse in California at Huntington, Harbor, near the quarter horse track, Los Alamitas, where they raced the horses. He and his wife, Paula, now reside in the tropical paradise of Naples, Florida, with their four cats and their Australian Shepards, Rascal and Randi.