Mr. Simpson and Other Short Stories by Maitland-Lewis, Stephen NEUF tendance

Award-winning author Stephen Maitland-Lewiss first collection of short stories includes tales of international intrigue, suspense, mystery, and exotic adventures. Featuring the exploits of such diverse characters as a fugitive from justice, a frustrated musician, an unscrupulous Manhattan art dealer, an impoverished London banker, and a British schoolboy in New Zealand and Palm Springs. The anthology also chronicles amorous escapades in Geneva, Paris, and the French Riviera, family greed, and a mysterious Munich tattoo parlor, among many other stories. The collection is highlighted by the books title character, Mr. Ernest Simpson-a fictional account twenty-three years after his divorce from Wallis Simpson and the abdication of King Edward VIII.

Stephen Maitland-Lewis is an award-winning author, a British attorney, and a former international investment banker. He has held senior executive positions in London, Kuwait, Paris, Munich, and on Wall Street prior to moving to California in 1991. He has owned a luxury hotel and a world-renowned restaurant and was also Director of Marketing of a Los Angeles daily newspaper.

Maitland-Lewis is a jazz aficionado and a Board Trustee of the Louis Armstrong House Museum in New York. In 2014, he received the Museums prestigious Louie Award. A member of PEN, the Palm Springs Writers Guild and the Authors Guild, Maitland-Lewis is also on the Executive Committee of the International Mystery Writers Festival. In addition, he is on the Advisory Board of the California Jazz Foundation and is a former Board member.

He has published short stories in various magazines and Mr. Simpson and Other Short Stories is Maitland-Lewis first collection of short stories. His novels have received numerous accolades and his most recent suspense thriller is Duped. His other novels include Hero on Three Continents; Emeralds Never Fade which won the 2012 Benjamin Franklin Award for Historical Fiction and the 2011 Written Arts Award for Best Fiction; Ambition which was a 2013 USA Best Book Awards finalist and won first place for General Fiction in the 2013 Rebeccas Reads Choice Awards; and Botticellis Bastard, a 2014 USA Best Book Awards finalist in three categories and winner of the Bronze Award in Best Regional Fiction (Europe) at the 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards. Maitland-Lewis short story, Mr. Simpson has recently been developed as a play and has been performed by noted theatre companies in Miami, New Orleans and Beverly Hills.

In January of 2016, Maitland-Lewis was sworn in as a Freeman of the City of London and admitted as a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of City Solicitors. In April of 2016, he became a Fellow of The Royal Geographical Society (FRGS). He divides his time between Beverly Hills, CA and New Orleans, LA.