Warren Dunford

Warren Dunford (born 1963) is a Canadian writer, who published three comedic mystery novels in the 1990s and 2000s. All three novels centred on Mitchell Draper, a gay aspiring screenwriter and amateur detective plunged into unusual criminal investigations in the film industries of both Toronto and Hollywood. and wrote an unproduced screenplay. His first short story, "Moment's Glory", was published in the Toronto Star in 1987. The novel was rejected by 100 different publishing companies before being accepted by Riverbank Press. His third novel, The Scene Stealer, followed in 2005.

He has also been a television writer for the series Canadian Case Files, and has published short stories in Taddle Creek, This Magazine, and the anthologies Upon a Midnight Clear, Quickies II and Queer Fear II.