Pseudonyms
What makes a good pen name, anyway?
Authors' names loom large when we think about detective stories. Yet many of them are pseudonyms, created just to appear on book covers. But why go to all this trouble? And what makes a good pen name, anyway?
This archive episode of Shedunnit was first published on 17th April 2019.
Books and sources:
鈥擳he Man in the Queue by Gordon Daviot / Josephine Tey
鈥擜 Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
鈥擩osephine Tey: A Life by Jennifer Morag Henderson
鈥擪if: An Unvarnished History by Elizabeth Mackintosh
鈥擱ichard of Bordeaux, a play in two acts by Gordon Daviot
鈥擜 Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey
鈥擠egrees of Guilt by H.S. Chandler
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