Theodore Tinsley

Theodore A. Tinsley (October 27, 1894 – March 3, 1979) was an American writer who primarily wrote mystery stories.

[1] Tinsley graduated from City College of New York in 1916, and worked as a school teacher and insurance agent before fighting in World War I as a member of an anti-aircraft machine gun battery.

[2] In 1989, their daughter Dr. Adrian Tinsley would be named president of Fitchburg State University.

After the war's end, he worked in public relations for the Veterans Administration until 1960, when he retired to Auburn, Alabama, where he spent the rest of his life.

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Tinsley's stories about The Scarlet Ace were published in All Detective Magazine in the early 1930s
Tinsley's "Bullets for a Brunette" was cover-featured on the November 1936 issue of Detective Romances