I began working on the case of the Capeman--which eventually became Vampires, Dragons,and Egyptian Kings--after reading the obituary of Salvador Agron in the New York Times. The story of a boy convicted of murder in a West Side playground, sentenced to death, reprieved through the actions of Eleanor Roosevelt, NY District Attorney Frank Hogan, and others, and who became literate and earned college credits while in prison, was an irresistable lure.