Rita Lakin is the creator of the Gladdy Gold mystery books. These include Getting Old Is Murder, Getting Old Is The Best Revenge, and Getting Old Is Criminal.

One of the pioneers of female Hollywood writers, she worked on shows such as Dr. Kildare, Peyton Place, Mod Squad & Dynasty. She created her own shows: The Rookies, Flamingo Road and Nightingales. Additionally, Rita wrote many Movies of the Week and mini-series such as Death takes A Holiday, Women In Chains, Strong Medicine, and Voices of the Heart. She has also written two original theatrical plays, No Language But a Cry and Saturday Night at Grossinger’s (co-authored) which are still being produced.

Awards

Her many awards include Writers Guild of America

Writers Guild of America

The Writers Guild of America is a generic term referring to the joint efforts of two different US labor unions:* The Writers Guild of America, East , representing TV and film writers East of the Mississippi....

, Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Allan Poe Award  and the Avery Hopwood Award from the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

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Novels

Title	Release
Getting Old Can Kill You	June 28, 2011
Getting Old Is Très Dangereux	June 22, 2010
Getting Old Is a Disaster	December 30, 2008
Getting Old Is to Die For	December 26, 2007
Getting Old Is Criminal	May 1, 2007
Getting Old Is The Best Revenge	March 28, 2006
Getting Old Is Murder	October 25, 2005
A Sensitive, Passionate Man	1977
Demon Of The Night	1976

TV Credits

Show	Year
Voice of the Heart Voice of the Heart Voice of the Heart is the eleventh album by American pop duo Carpenters. It was released in 1983 after Karen's death and contains material from her final recording sessions, as well as previously unreleased tracks from sessions over the years....  (TV) (teleplay)	1990
Nightingales Nightingales Nightingales is a British situation comedy set around the antics of three security guards working the night shift. It was produced by Alomo Productions for Channel 4 in 1990.-Outline:...  (TV) (story)	1988
Strong Medicine (aka Arthur Hailey's 'Strong Medicine')	1986
Peyton Place: The Next Generation Peyton Place: The Next Generation Peyton Place: The Next Generation is a 1985 television film directed by Larry Elikann. The film is based on the TV series Peyton Place, which aired from 1964 to 1969, and the plot is set twenty years after the original sage...	1985
Flamingo Road	1980
Torn Between Two Lovers Torn Between Two Lovers "Torn Between Two Lovers" is the title of a pop song written by Peter Yarrow and Phillip Jarrell. It was inspired by Boris Pasternak's 1957 novel, Dr. Zhivago, which featured a man in love with two women. Yarrow originally intended the song to be sung by a man... (TV) (story)	1979
A Sensitive, Passionate Man	1977
Hey, I'm Alive Hey, I'm Alive Hey, I'm Alive is a 1975 American television movie. It premiered on ABC on November 7, 1975.The film is based on the true story of two plane crash survivors who spent 49 days of winter in the Yukon before they were rescued....	1975
The Rookies The Rookies The Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It followed the exploits of three rookie police officers in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department .-History:...	1975
Last Bride of Salem	1974
Message to My Daughter	1973
A Summer Without Boys	1973
The Rookies The Rookies The Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It followed the exploits of three rookie police officers in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department .-History:...  (TV) (story)	1972
Women in Chains Women in Chains Women in Chains is a Paramount Pictures film released in 1971 starring Lois Nettleton, Ida Lupino and Penny Fuller.-Plot:...	1972
Death Takes a Holiday Death Takes a Holiday Death Takes a Holiday is a 1934 romantic drama starring Fredric March, Evelyn Venable and Guy Standing, based on the Italian play La Morte in Vacanze by Alberto Casella.-Synopsis:...	1971
The Invaders The Invaders The Invaders, a Quinn Martin Production , is an ABC science fiction television program created by Larry Cohen that ran in the United States for two seasons, from January 10, 1967 to March 26, 1968...	1967
Peyton Place Peyton Place (TV series) Peyton Place is an American prime-time soap opera which aired on ABC in half-hour episodes from September 15, 1964 to June 2, 1969.Based upon the 1956 novel of the same name by Grace Metalious, the series was preceded by a 1957 film adaptation. A total of 514 episodes were broadcast, in...	1964
The Doctors	1963