Before he became an acclaimed novelist and political commentator, Gore Vidal was just a guy trying to make ends meet. Under three different pseudonyms, Vidal wrote a romance novel, three mysteries, and a crime thriller. Now, over 50 years later, Thieves Fall Out, a pulp novel set during the 1952 Egyptian Revolution, is being re-issued, this time with Vidal’s name on the cover. The New York Times has the whole story.
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Jay Parini, friend, biographer, and former literary executor of Mr Vidal, says, “Gore Vidal’s Thieves Fall Out should have died a quiet death”:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/sep/04/gore-vidal-thieves-fall-out-republished-jay-parini
He does, indeed, say that. That doesn’t mean he’s right.
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