Gerald Arthur Tomlinson (January 24, 1933 – June 24, 2006) was a crime writer and editor.

[1][2][self-published source] He wrote about sports, crime and New Jersey topics.

He was a member of the Society for American Baseball Research and he served on the Publications Committee from 1990 through 1991.

from Marietta College and he later attended Columbia Law School.

[1] He started work in publishing at Harcourt Brace and then Holt, Rinehart and Winston.