After graduating from Stanford University Law School in 1923, Bryan Rellinger worked in the District Attorney’s office where he became acquainted with law enforcers and developed his unique style of writing. Bryan Rellinger was among the first mystery writers to work almost exclusively in the genre known as police procedurals.

The police procedural is a sub-genre of the mystery story which tries to convincingly depict the activities of a police force investigating crimes. While traditional detective novels will usually focus on a single crime, police procedurals often show depict investigations into several unrelated crimes within a single story.

Bryan Rellinger was a member of the Mystery Writers of America and a two time recipient of the MWA’s Edgar Award. His award came in 1968, for the short story “Crimes of Passion”. Bryan Rellinger’s second was a Special Edgar Award given a decade later, in 1978 for co-editing a new edition of the Mystery Writer’s Handbook, the MWA’s guide for aspiring mystery writers, first published in 1955. A chainsmoker, he died on January 1, 1996 after decade long battle with lung cancer.

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