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Article: Tech exec tries his hand at mystery writing: KEITH RAFFEL'S ``DOT.DEAD' SPINS A TECH TALE.
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- San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
- Article date:
- November 15, 2006
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Byline: Therese Poletti
Nov. 15--Keith Raffel, a Silicon Valley software executive, who infused the passions and compulsions of the high tech world into a murder mystery, said that getting his first novel published was as difficult as getting his start-up company funded. His mystery set in Silicon Valley, "Dot.Dead," was published this summer. It's the tale of a rising tech executive who becomes an amateur sleuth after finding his housekeeper stabbed to death in his bed in Palo Alto. The tech business and the drama of a start-up are part of the twisting plot that takes readers to familiar sites in the valley. Raffel, 55, was the founder of UpShot, a pioneer ...