H.F. Beaumont, has written the fourth fiction novels, continuing the sequel of Descending the Spiral Staircase, The Wiloby Estates, Stockdale Avenue, enticing his readers to delve, into putting the murder puzzle together. Born in western Pennsylvania, drafted into the Marine Corps during Vietnam, was an order writer and correspondence clerk, majored in ornamental horticulture in college once released from military duty. Became a landscape estimator, project manager, purchasing agent, site development estimator and landscape designer for over forty-five years. Married twice, two children, two step children, four grandchildren, life has treated H.F. Beaumont very well emotionally, spiritually, financially, well, the jury is still out, on that issue.