

Both shows were highly regarded but cancelled after short runs. Both nominations were in the "Best Episode of a TV Series" category with the first being in 1993 for the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" episode of Likely Suspects and the second in 2002 for the "Prisoner's Base: Part 2" S01E05 episode of A Nero Wolfe Mystery. The pair have twice been nominated for an Edgar, an award for mystery writing named after Edgar Allen Poe. Nearly all of his television work has been collaborations with fellow writer and producer Lee Goldberg. Rabkin has written for a number of notable television series, including Spenser: For Hire, Murphy's Law, Hunter, Baywatch, Diagnosis Murder, A Nero Wolfe Mystery, Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories, Monk and many other series. He also wrote the five Psych tie-in novels: A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read (2009), Mind Over Magic (2009), The Call of the Mild (2010), A Fatal Frame of Mind (2010), and Mind-Altering Murder (2011). Rabkin co-wrote S1E9 Forget Me Not with his partner Lee Goldberg. William Rabkin is an American producer, writer and author.
