Gaylord Larsen
Gaylord Larsen is an American crime writer.
He is well known for his fictional murder mystery Dorothy and Agatha, incorporating the well-known mystery novelists Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie as title characters, where Sayers must solve a crime when a man is murdered in her dining room.
Larsen was born in Canova, South Dakota, and educated at Sioux [Falls College] and the University of California, Los Angeles. During the 1960s, he worked in the television and advertising industries in Los Angeles. In addition to his crime novels, Larsen is also a former writer for the Christian television anthology series This Is the [Life (TV series)|This Is the Life]. His literary influences include Raymond Chandler, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Ross Macdonald.
He is also the author of the Jason Bradley Mystery Series, as well as:
- 1981 The Kilbourne Connection
- 1983 Trouble Crossing the Pyrenees issued 1986 as An Educated Death
- 1987 One Hundred Eighty Degrees Murder
- 1988 A Paramount Kill set in Hollywood with Raymond Chandler as detective.
- 1989 Atascadro Island
- 1990 ''Dorothy and Agatha''