L. C. (Len) Tyler (born 1951) is a

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writer of comic

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. His ''Elsie and Ethelred'' mysteries feature Ethelred Tressider, a crime writer, and Elsie Thirkettle, his literary agent.

Biography

Born 1951, Tyler was raised in

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and studied

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at Jesus College, Oxford University (

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in 1971), before going on to study

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at City University in

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. He worked for the

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, Sudan,

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and

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, before becoming

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of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, then a full-time writer. Tyler's 2007 novel ''The Herring Seller's Apprentice'' was nominated for an Edgar Award for "Best Paperback Original". In 2015 LC Tyler was elected Chair of the Crime Writers' Association. He won the Goldsboro Last Laugh Award both in 2010, for ''The Herring in the Library'', and in 2015, for ''Crooked Herring''. ''The Herring Seller’s Apprentice'' and ''Ten Little Herrings'' were nominated for Edgar Allan Poe Awards.

References

External links

Personal website

Author in the Spotlight at Amazon

''100 Ways to Write a Book - 100 authors in conversation with Alex Pearl about their backgrounds, motivations and working methods''
Living people English crime fiction writers Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford Alumni of City, University of London People from Southend-on-Sea 1951 births {{UK-novelist-stub