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Gore Vidal

Thieves Fall Out by Gore Vidal (writing as Cameron Kay)

Fresh Meat: Thieves Fall Out by Gore Vidal (writing as Cameron Kay)

By Clare Toohey

April 8, 2015

Thieves Fall Out by Gore Vidal (writing as Cameron Kay) is a pulp novel, rediscovered after sixty years, about a broke American in post-WWII Cairo who gets involved in smuggling, intrigue, and revolution (available April 21, 2015). This novel comes with comparisons to Casablanca right on the back—oh, it's understandable if you didn't notice that…

The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne

Writing Murder Loves Company: Famous Authors Who Dabbled in Mystery

By Deborah Lacy

March 15, 2013

In today’s marketing influenced world, authors tend to be categorized in one segment or another—mystery/thriller, romance, literary, etc. But in reality, most writers try a variety of forms, and people who are not strictly writers also like to try their hand at writing a mystery. The list below is filled with famous people better known…

Gore Vidal’s Comeback: The Return of Edgar Box

By Ron Hogan

July 7, 2011

Gore Vidal made a moderate splash in literary circles with his first two novels, but the reaction to The City and the Pillar, in which he wrote about a young man who has a “Brokeback Mountain” moment with a high school classmate and becomes obsessed with recreating the passion he felt that night, almost undid…

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