Anyone's My Name Book

Published in 1953, Anyone's My Name appeared on the The New York Times bestseller list, was publisher abroad and critically acclaimed. The novel was recently re-released in French by the distinguished house of Gallimard. It is the tale of a cynical detective-story writer who is personally drawn into the world of some of the characters he writes about. His life turns upside down and suddenly he finds himself hunted as one of the "madmen" he had superficially described so often in his stories. The novel, because of it's exploration of violent crime and capital punishment, has been used in university criminology courses throughout the United States.