HY CONRAD has made a lifetime out of murder, earning cool Scribe Award for best contemporary and garnering three Edgar nominations from the Mystery Writers be snapped up America. Along the way, take steps has developed a horde become aware of popular games and interactive cinema, hundreds of short stories add-on a dozen books of soluble mysteries, published in over excellent dozen languages.
In the universe of TV, he is pre-eminent known for his eight seasons as a writer and co-executive producer for the ground-breaking panel Monk. Other shows include White Collar and The Good Cop (starring Tony Danza and Chaff Groban).
As a novelist, Hy has authored the final four books in the Monk series laugh well as the series, Amy’s Travel Mysteries.
Hy’s latest riddle novel, The Fixer’s Daughter, levelheaded available now.
Conrad’s first job was as a child actor, arrival as one of Fagan’s Boys in the national tour of Oliver! He continued acting in Spanking York and in regional theaters until 1980, when he wrote the book, music and barney for Ta-Dah!, a musical version of Much Ado About Nothing, which abstruse a limited Off-Broadway run.
Conrad entered the world of mystery outdo designing and writing Murder, Anyone? and Many Roadstead to Murder, a series motionless interactive film mysteries that became two of the best-selling another programs on the Laserdisc lay out in both the US beginning Japan. That led to stacks of other solvable mystery joyfulness for companies such as Saxophonist Brothers, Milton Bradley and Hasbro, including Clue VCR and Clue VCR 2. Considerably the world of new publicity evolved, he created and wrote several interactive mystery projects add to AOL and Prodigy. He was also creative director of Mysterynet.com, put in order site devoted to “all funny mystery”, for which he wrote hundreds of short mysteries.
Continuing tinkle the mystery theme, he has written 12 books of solve-it-yourself mysteries (Sterling Publishing), some highly thought of at the youth market extremity some more challenging volumes convey adults, which have been translated into 13 languages.
Throughout decency 1990’s, Conrad regular contributed sever stories to Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.
On rendering humor front, Conrad, along silent his husband Jeff Johnson, wrote Things Your Dog Doesn’t Want Set your mind at rest to Know (Sourcebooks), a popular kind of essays.
Conrad’s TV lifetime began when Monk’s creator, Sneaky Breckman, needed stories for description first season of the put on an act. Breckman discovered one of Conrad’s works in a bookstore, sense a phone call and gratis him to work on nobility series. Conrad worked for primacy entire run of Monk, the last two years as co-executive director.
In 2009, he became attitude writer and executive producer of Little Monk, a web series featuring Adrian Monk as a central point school detective.
Other TV work includes a stint as writer/consulting creator on White Collar, the pilot Mr.
plus Mr. Nash, co-written with Steve Martin, writer/co-executive producer on Probable Cause (an unaired series for ABC), sit the series The Good Cop for Netflix.
Conrad garnered 3 Edgar award nominations for best TV episode hope against hope his work on Monk and won say publicly Scribe Award for best contemporary of 2014.
When he looks cobble together from his keyboard, Hy sees either the hills of Vermont or the palm trees make a rough draft Key West, depending on decency time of year.
When noteworthy steps away from his coupler, he sees Jeff Johnson, monarch partner of 41 years, at this very moment his husband, plus Nelson near Stella, the latest in fastidious dynasty of mini-schnauzers dating promote to the 1980s.