Laurence Shames (born 1951) is an American writer.
Laurence Shames is best known for his series of comic mysteries, all set in Key West, Florida.
[1][2][3] One of his most popular books, however, Bad Twin, was written under the pseudonym Gary Troup, in a cross promotion between publisher Hyperion Books (now Hachette Books) and ABC, the network which produced the TV series, Lost.
In Lost, Troup was a fictional character who was presumed dead in the airline crash that was the basis for the TV series, and he left a manuscript behind, leading viewers of the series to buy the book to find clues to the mysteries of Lost.
Laurence Shames was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1951.