Les Roberts and Holly Albin

After a successful career in television — he was the producer of Hollywood Squares, and first came to Cleveland to develop the Cash Explosion lottery show — Les began writing and selling mystery novels, which is how I met him. If you don’t count sports heroes, news anchors and the mayor, he’s probably Cleveland’s #1 celebrity. He’s also a hell of a nice guy, a fascinating raconteur (ask him to tell you about Groucho Marx’s week on Hollywood Squares!), his girlfriend Holly is charming — oh, and he writes these really good novels about Cleveland PI Milan Jacovich. He’s got his own website — which I redesigned for him in 2006, and which you can find here.

The photo was taken in March 2006, at Eddie’s Blueline Cafe on the East Side of Cleveland, where we had dinner after getting his new site online after 10 days of pretty intensive webslinging....

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