Timothy Cotton retired a lieutenant from a long career with the Bangor (Maine) Police Department. He is the author of the best-selling Got Warrants? and The Detective in the Dooryard and is a recipient of the Erma Bombeck Award for humor. His writing has been published in a number of newspapers, magazines, and websites--most recently CarTalk.com and the Bangor Daily News, and the uniform company Blauer also posts a regular podcast narrated by Cotton.