James Lincoln Warren, a frequent contributor to Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, is the author of two mystery short fiction series and several standalone short stories. The "Treviscoe of Lloyd's" series features 18th century insurance investigator Alan Treviscoe: "Black Spartacus" (AHMM May 1999) was featured in the anniversary anthology ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE PRESENTS FIFTY YEARS OF CRIME AND SUSPENSE, and another, "Miching Malicho," was the cover story in the March 2003 issue. The contemporary "Cal Ops" series concerns a multiracial Beverly Hills detective agency and has been featured in both magazines.
Among his standalone fiction, "Shanghaied" (AHMM, Jan/Feb 2009) was selected by Otto Penzler and Lee Child as one of the "Other Distinguished Mystery Stories of 2009" in THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY SHORT STORIES 2010; "When the Wind Blows" was the cover story for the October 2007 issue of AHMM; "Ten Thousand Cold Nights" (AHMM Apr 2010) was included in the Kindle anthology ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE PRESENTS: 13 TALES OF NEW AMERICAN GOTHIC; and his Sherlock Holmes pastiche "Shikari" was the cover and the lead story in the February 2012 issue of Ellery Queen. In 2011, he was the winner of the Black Orchid Novella Award for an original novella written in the tradition of Rex Stout, awarded in tandem by Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and the Nero Wolfe fan organization, the Wolfe Pack, for "Inner Fire," which appeared in the Jul/Aug 2012 issue.
He is a past President of the SoCal Chapter of Mystery Writers of America, and lectured on short story structure to high acclaim at the joint SinC L.A./SocalMWA California Crime Writers Conference in 2009. He received his B.A. in the Humanities from the University of Texas San Antonio and has served as an officer in the U.S. Navy.
Addendum:
I've been asked by a reviewer to give a list of the order in which my Alan Treviscoe stories occur. Although I intended them all to stand independently, the reviewer is of the opinion that the stories are so complex it may help the reader to better understand them if they are read in sequence. Since I am never one to argue with a reader, especially one whose praise of my work is so gratifying, here's how the stories stand in chronological order:
WHOSE LUST IS MURDER
Prolegomenon
Liber Primus
(i.e., the first third of the novel)
TREVISCOE OF LLOYD'S Vol. 1
"The Dioscuri Deception"
"The Iphis Incident"
"Black Spartacus"
(The first three of four short stories)
WHOSE LUST IS MURDER
Liber Secundus
Liber Tertius
Epilogos
(i.e., the last two-thirds of the novel)
TREVISCOE OF LLOYD'S Vol. 1
"An Ingraft of Evil"
(The fourth of four short stories)
TREVISCOE OF LLOYD'S Vol. 2
"The Dangerous Hand"
"Actæon in Albion"
"Miching Malicho"
"The Apollo Progression"
(four short stories)
THE SATAN LEAGUE
(short story)
