Theodore Tinsley

Tinsley's stories about The Scarlet Ace were published in in the early 1930s

Tinsley's "Bullets for a Brunette" was cover-featured on the November 1936 issue of

Theodore A. Tinsley (October 27, 1894 – March 3, 1979) was an American author who primarily wrote mystery stories. Tinsley wrote 27 stories featuring The Shadow for The Shadow Magazine pulp magazine. He also created , one of the first female detectives in pulp fiction, who appeared in Street & Smith's Crimebuster pulp magazine. An early series he wrote is the "Amusement Inc./Scarlet Ace" series that ran over 4 different pulp magazines in the 1930s.

Early life[]

Theodore Adrian Tinsley was born in New York City, the eldest of six children of Francis B. Tinsley, the owner of a coal yard, by his wife Gertrude (Theban) Tinsley.^[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. He was a veteran of the battle of Meuse-Argonne.

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Later life[]

During World War II Tinsley moved to Washington, D.C. where he worked in the Writer's Division of the Office of War Information; after the war's end, he worked in public relations for the Veterans Administration until 1960, when he retired to Auburn, Alabama, where he would live the rest of his life.^[2]

On February 5, 1935, Theodore Tinsley married May Ethel White;^[3] their daughter Dr. Adrian Tinsley would, in 1989, be named president of Fitchburg State University.

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