Ronald Clair Roat
Ronald Clair Roat (April 4, 1946 – November 28, 2013) was the author of the Stuart Mallory Mystery Series. He graduated from Michigan State University in 1968 with a bachelor's in journalism. Later that year he was drafted into the U.S. Army and served about two years with a Nike Hercules missile battalion near Pittsburgh, Pa.  Before becoming a journalism professor, he worked for several newspapers as a professional reporter, editor, or columnist. The newspapers included the Lansing State Journal, Dominion News (Morgantown, W.Va.), Dayton Daily News, and The Times in Frankfort, Ind. He served as a journalism professor at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville, Indiana, between 1986 and 2008 when he retired. Stuart Mallory Mystery Series

The series consists of three books: 
Close Softly the Doors
A Still and Icy Silence
High Walk

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1968 births
People from Pontiac, Michigan
Michigan State University alumni
University of Southern Indiana faculty
American mystery writers
2013 deaths
American male novelists
20th-century American novelists
20th-century American male writers
Novelists from Indiana