Donald Sutherland Bain (March 6, 1935 – October 21, 2017) was an American author and ghostwriter, having written over 115 books in his 40-year career.
[1][2] Bain was a native of Mineola, New York and graduated from Purdue University in 1957 where he studied speech and drama.
[4] byline: Trudy Baker and Rachel Jones byline: Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain A spin-off book series based on the Murder, She Wrote American crime drama television series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher.
While Bain initially denied this,[5] he wrote a column in the March 14, 2014 issue of Publishers Weekly and finally acknowledged writing "27 novels in the Margaret Truman Capital Crimes series (mostly bylined by Truman, my close collaborator – my name is on only the most recent entries, released after her death).
"[6] Bain died of congestive heart failure on October 21, 2017, in White Plains, New York at the age of 82.