Les Roberts (born July 18, 1937) is an American screenwriter and mystery novelist. Biography Roberts was born Lester Roubert, to Lester Nathaniel and Eleanor (Bauch) Roubert in Chicago, Illinois; he changed his name to Roberts in 1968. Roberts attended the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and Roosevelt University (1954–1956), served in the U.S. Army (1960–1962), and married Gail Medland in 1957; they divorced in 1980. Roberts has two children, Valerie Lynne and Darren Jon, one grandchild, Shea Holland Thompson. He currently lives in Stow, Ohio. Social views Roberts became a vegan c. 2012 after watching 'Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home' stating: Writing career Roberts began his career as a contemporary American mystery novelist after twenty-four years in Hollywood, having written and/or produced more than 2,500 half-hour segments of network and syndicated television. He was the first producer and head writer of The Hollywood Squares, and has written for The Lucy Show, The Andy Griffith Show, The Jackie Gleason Show and The Man from U.N.C.L.E., among others. Roberts is primarily seen as a regional writer. Though his Saxon series is set in Los Angeles, he is best known for his Milan Jacovich series set in his adopted hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. Jacovich, unlike many single, dashing private eyes of fiction, is a battered, Stroh's-drinking, polka-dancing Slovenian American Vietnam veteran, ex-cop, and former Kent State football star, with a Serbian strong-willed ex-wife and two sons that he sees every other Sunday. Jacovich's working-guy attitude has endeared him to many Cleveland readers. He is past president of the Private Eye Writers of America and the regular mystery book critic for The Plain Dealer. He has been a professional actor, singer, businessman, teacher and jazz musician. Bibliography The Saxon series An Infinite Number Of Monkeys (1987 ) Not Enough Horses (1988 ) A Carrot For The Donkey (1989 ) Snake Oil (1990 ) Seeing The Elephant (1992 ) The Lemon Chicken Jones (1994 ) The Milan Jacovich series Pepper Pike (1988: ) Full Cleveland (1989 ) Deep Shaker (1991 ) The Cleveland Connection (1993 ) The Lake Effect (1994 ) The Duke Of Cleveland (1995 ) Collision Bend (1996 ) The Cleveland Local (1997 ) A Shoot In Cleveland (1998 ) The Best-Kept Secret (1999 ) The Indian Sign (2000 ) The Dutch (2001 ) The Irish Sports Pages (2002 ) King of the Holly Hop (2008 ) The Cleveland Creep (2011 ) Whiskey