Let's make this birthday one to remember.

89 years old (Born on July 24, 1935)

Happy Birthday, Aaron Elkins! May your celebration be as thrilling and intriguing as a Gideon Oliver mystery—minus the skeletons in attendance. Your knack for turning bones into best-selling adventures has kept readers delightfully puzzled (and slightly suspicious of their neighbors) since "Old Bones" earned you that well-deserved Edgar Award back in 1988.

Here's to another year filled with clever plots, witty dialogue, and forensic fun. You've given us countless hours of suspenseful entertainment; may this birthday bring plenty more inspiration—and perhaps fewer skeletal surprises lurking around corners!

Cheers to many happy returns from all your devoted fans!