Author of the popular "DKA File" series (1969-1978), featuring private
investigators, or "ops." Gores deromanticizes detective work in this
series, showing the drudgery and grunt work of detection. After earning
a master's degree from Stanford University in 1961, he taught at a
boys' school in Kenya, and also worked as a hod carrier, a laborer, a
logger, a clerk, a driver, a carnival helper, and an assistant motel
manager. His later writing career was based on his twelve years as a
private eye. His first novel, "A Time of Predators" (1969), earned the
Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First
Novel.
