Juri wrote:
>Now, what's this? I clearly remember writing an
answer to this, but it's
>vanished in the byte space. I tried to say that I
thought that Hunter is
>now his real name, he has changed it
legally.
Hmmm....my original message was all screwed up, too. Maybe I
got hold of some bad bytes. Or Juri and I are having
simultaneous senior moments. My message should have
read:
>And both (Ed McBain and Evan Hunter) are actually pen
names, in
>fact. McBain/Hunter's real name is Salvatore Lombino,
though the way
>things are going, that'll probably turn out to be a
pseudonym of
>Westlake's, or maybe Bill Pronzini or Lawrence
Block...
Probably Michael Shayne was the most used pseudonym, but I
wonder which HB writer used the most pseudonyms?
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