From the start of "Personal Histories" I felt I was in the hands of a master craftsman who knew exactly what he was doing, and who shaped a tidy little noir with overtones of "The Maltese Falcon," hitting many of the key expectations of the genre in such a way that revelation after revelation unfolds in increasingly tense and exciting fashion. The play is well-paced, features snappy dialogue, seems well-researched in science and art, and I hope gets picked up by any theatre Jerry Slaff cares to submit it to.