Leo Bloodworth
& Serendipity Dahlquist
Created by Dick Lochte

Southern California P.I. LEO BLOODWORTH talks tough and drinks hard, and the last thing in the world he thinks he wants is some precocious (okay, smartass), roller-skating 14-year old girl for a partner. But when SERENDIPITY DAHLQUIST hires Leo to find her missing pitbull Groucho, that's exactly what he gets. And it turns out Leo may not be quite as jaded as he thinks he is.

The first book in the series, which features Leo's and Serendipity's tag-team narration of the same events was nominated for an Edgar and actually won the Nero Wolfe award.

Author Lochte also writes about New Orleans private eye Terry Manion, who appeared with Leo in Laughing Dog (he actually hires Leo), as well as in 1997's short story "A Tough Case to Figure." His Lucky Dog and Other Tales of Murder (2000), published by Five Star, includes stories featuring Leo and Serendipity, Manion and D.A.'s investigator J.J. Legendre (New Orleans in the Sixties). It also includes a reprint of "Sad-Eyed Blonde," his excellent entry in the Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe collection from a few years back. He is the co-author with the Today Show's Al Roker of a series of popular mysteries, and has also co-authored four popular crime novels with attorney Christopher Darden, written screenplays for such actors as Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen and Roger Moore and knows more about crime and detective movies than anyone on the planet.

UNDER OATH

  • "Los Angeles Times columnist Lochte deserves raves for his debut. This thriller outclasses, in many ways, the tales of Raymond Chandler, Ross MacDonald and other renowned California mystery writers... Lochte astonishingly builds a host of disparate elements into a corker entertainment, uncontrived and satisfying."
     -- Publisher's Weekly on Sleeping Dog

NOVELS

SHORT STORIES

  • "Lucky Dog" (Winter 1992, The Armchair Detective)
  • "Mad Dog" (1993, Santa Clues; Bloodworth solo)
  • "A Tough Case to Figure" (March 1997, EQMM)
  • "Rappin' Dog" (1999, Murder on Route 66)
  • "Diamond Dog" (2005, Creature Cozies)
  • "Devil Dog" (2007, Hollywood and Crime)....Buy this book

COLLECTIONS

Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith. Thanks to Janice Long for the heads up!

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