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Edgar Box |
 | | Vidal's Edgar Box mystery novels have not been translated as widely as his literary novels, although readers in France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Japan and Russia have enjoyed the books in their own languages. |
 | | The 1962-3 German paperback editions, one of which is pictured below, merely refer to Edgar Box as "a pseudonym for a well-known American author of literature." Yet despite the 1960 Japanese unmasking of Edgar Box, thorough sleuths could have discovered Box's true identity as early as 1953, the year after the first novel appeared. |
 | | The 1949-1952 volume of Cumulative Book Index, a contemporary reference guide, lists "Edgar Box" as a pseudonym for Gore Vidal, although granted, such evidence is akin to the proverbial needle in a haystack. |
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