ABOUT THE AUTHOR
I have a PhD in bio-medical anthropology became bored with Academia and repackaged my problem-solving skills to become an expert in pharmaceutical New Product Planning and Strategic Marketing that led to becoming Senior Vice President of Global Strategy for one of the top Swiss Pharma companies. In my professional role, I developed a strong interest in personalized medicine and a passion for its implementation. I was involved in a pharmaceutical company’s acquisition of a diagnostics group in the late 1990’s to accelerate implementation of personalized medicine. Recently, I wrote a business plan for the implementation of personalized medicine for a G7 country.
I’m a native of Berkeley, California, and live there today. I got my BA in anthropology from the University of California and went on to graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania, which I thought was another state school. Budding anthropologists have to choose where to do fieldwork. In my case, I looked for the amalgam of beaches, tropics, and French food. I won my personal trifecta in the then New Hebrides (now Vanuatu). I was fortunate to study with the discoverer of the hepatitis B virus.
Elizabeth Reed Aden’s literary accomplishments are intertwined with those of Eunice Mays Boyd, her godmother. Elizabeth, or Betsy as she is known to friends, found sanctuary in Eunice’s Berkeley home during the student riots of 1969 in the “battle” for People’s Park. There she read a draft of Eunice’s last mystery, A Vacation to Kill For. Watching Eunice go through the process of writing ultimately inspired Betsy to write her own book. The Goldilocks Genome (to be published by TouchPoint Press), is a medical thriller based on her deep knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry.
Her next book HEPATITIS Beach -- From Beach to Boardroom (to be published in 2024) focuses on her time and research in Melanesia, where she did her doctoral research. She studied the natural history of hepatitis B virus on a remote island with no Western amenities, went native, and found time to enjoy the beach. During the 1970’s it was a very different and challenging environment for a woman in Academia. She describes how she navigated the pre-#MeToo world and her rite of passage into a successful career in the pharmaceutical industry.
When preparing her mother’s house for an estate sale, Elizabeth found additional cozy mystery books that Eunice had written, each with a female hero. Wanting to honor her godmother, who died in 1970, she obtained the rights to publish the four new mysteries written between 1945-1970 and to republish Eunice’s other books including the award-winning mystery Murder Breaks Trail, all from the 1940’s set in Alaska featuring F. Millard Smythe. The new books are: Dune House (2021), Slay Bells (2021), A Vacation to Kill For (2022), and One Paw Was Red (2022/2023). The republished works are: Murder Breaks Trail (1943), Doom in the Midnight Sun (1944), and Murder Wears Mukluks (1945), all of which will be published by Level Best Books in 2023. Read about how her mysteries were discovered in Tidbits. Keep up to date with Tidbits and articles on www.ElizabethReedAden.com
Contact
Email: ElizabethReedAden@gmail.com
Vintage Mysteries
Classics from the Golden Age by Eunice Mays Boyd
with Elizabeth Reed Aden
PUBLISHED BY LEVEL BEST BOOKS
F. Millard Smyth Award Winning Mysteries
MURDER BREAKS TRAIL,
by Eunice Mays Boyd
Originally published by Farrar Rhinehart, 1943
1943
Republishing in 2023
DOOM IN THE
MIDNIGHT SUN,
by Eunice Mays Boyd
Originally published by Farrar Rhinehart, 1943
1945
Republishing in 2023
MURDER WEARS MUKLUKS,
by Eunice Mays Boyd
Originally published by
Farrar Rhinehart, 1945
and republished by
Dell Publishing, 1948
1946
Republishing in 2023
