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:
—The Man in the Queue by Gordon Daviot / Josephine Tey
—A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
—Josephine Tey: A Life by Jennifer Morag Henderson
—Kif: An Unvarnished History by Elizabeth Mackintosh
—Richard of Bordeaux, a play in two acts by Gordon Daviot
—A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey
—Degrees of Guilt by H.S. Chandler
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