Dorothy Uhnak (April 24, 1930 – July 8, 2006; née Goldstein) was an American novelist.
[1] Uhnak worked for 14 years as a detective for the New York City Transit Police Department.
[1] Uhnak's debut book, Policewoman (1964), was a non-fiction autobiographical account of her law enforcement career.
[citation needed] After the Opara trilogy, Uhnak branched out into longer, more ambitious police novels such as Law and Order, which became a TV-movie starring Darren McGavin; The Investigation, which was adapted into a TV-movie featuring Telly Savalas as Kojak; and Victims, which seemed to fictionalize the Kitty Genovese murder.
[1] Uhnak died in Greenport, New York, reportedly of a deliberate drug overdose.