Mar 10, 2021
Death Likes It Hot by Edgar Box
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Death Likes It Hot by Edgar Box
Mr. Robot: "shutdown -r"
Death in the Fifth Position by Edgar Box
Cover by Robert Maguire
Edgar Box was a pseudonym of Gore Vidal.
'Tasteless and immoral': the #1954book results
‘Tasteless and immoral’: the #1954book results
Every month on Past Offences we review the crime fiction of a particular year. This month regular player Kate from the excellent crossexaminingcrime chose 1954.
New player Jason Half opened fishily with George Milner’s Shark Among Herrings, expressing my own feelings about those country house parties.
It’s a way of living that is both exotic and stifling when I consider it today; I’m not sure I…
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"I disliked his face, but that means nothing at all. My character analyses based on physiognomy or intuition are, without exception, incorrect; even so I have many profound likes and dislikes based entirely on the set of a man's eyes or his voice." - Gore Vidal (as Edgar Box), Death in the Fifth Position
Upon the 1948 publication of The City and Pillar, New York Times principal book reviewer Orville Prescott declared that under no circumstances would any book written by Gore Vidal be reviewed there again. Recognizing that the young author was in a rather terrible bind, Victor Weybright—an editor at the house that published Vidal—recommended that he try his hand at writing a mystery novel under a pseudonym. Thus, Edgar Box was born and three mysteries starring PR man Peter Sargeant were churned out in rapid succession.
Death in the Fifth Position (1952) is about a rather over-the-top murder at a Russian ballet company; Death Before Bedtime (1953) deals with the [pre-RFK, natch] murder of a senator who was eyeing a run for President; and Death Likes it Hot (1954) was written as an excuse for Vidal to frolic through the Hamptons in the name of research.
They're the height of pulpy, swanky cool and it looks like they're being brought back into print next month with an ultrasexy new look. I greatly look forward to reading them as I burn off a few layers of skin at the beach this summer and recommend that you do the same.