Block: Paul Kavanagh and Chip Harrison do seem to be the
only
mystery-related names (although, did Markham: the Case of
the
Pornographic Photos, reprinted as Coward's Kiss originally
carry Block's
name?). He wrote soft-core under the name Sheldon Lord
and
pseudo-doctor books about sex trends under the name John
Warren Wells.
He also wrote books as Jill Emerson, Liz Crowley and Lesley
Evans. Now
many of these pseudonyms have numerous books, only a few of
which are
definitely identified as Block. So this is what I asked
Block, are all
of the books by these names his or were they house
pseudonyms? As I
noted, he chose not to"confirm or deny." I tend to think they
were
written by many authors, but since most are not identified
it's hard to
tell which are definitely his.
Westlake: he wrote a number of Monarch sex books as Edwin
West. Now to
show you just how inexact this information is, I have read
that Alan
Marshall was a Westlake soft-core pen name (there is one book
listed as
co-written by Marshall and Sheldon Lord), but it is not
identified in
the copyright card catalog as a pseudonym. Given that many
(all?) of
these were probably works for hire, with the copyright owned
by the
publisher, there was little reason to be very meticulous
about recording
the true author on the form. As a matter of fact, many names
that have
been confirmed were not initially identified as pen names,
including
Block's Kavanagh and Westlake's Tucker Coe, Thomas J. Culver,
Curt Clark
and J. Morgan Cunningham.
Mark
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