The Richard Stark books were initially distinct, but have
since been
reprinted with both names. I'm not aware of the Tucker Coes
(very good
series featuring disgraced cop Mitch Tobin, in many ways a
pre-cursor of
Matt Scudder) ever coming out under his name, nor the Timothy
J. Culver
(Ex-Officio in hardback, Power Play in paper). The Curt Clark
novel,
Anarchaos came out a few years ago under his name, I think
with a couple
of other sci-fi stories. As J. Morgan Cunningham, he wrote
one disaster
spoof called Comfort Station, complete with cover blurb from
Donald E.
Westlake saying he wished he had written this book.
Of the Coes, at least Murder Among Children was The Coes was
reprinted in
England using AKA Donald Westlake on the front cover as a
mass market by No
Exit Press. I think I've seen them in trades using both names
in English
editions. I have a book club edition of Don't Lie to Me. In
'about the
author' it says, "Tucker Coe is a subsidiary of a writer
known to most
readers under a different name, perhaps his own."
I know he was pretty well identified as Stark fairly quickly
as The Hunter
as Point Blank and the Outfit were made into movies in the
60's. Though his
new Starks only have the Stark name on the cover in hb, he's
identified as
the author in the paragraph about the author.
The name of the collection of his sf is Tomorow's Crimes.
Unfortunately I've
not been able to find Comfort Station to read it.
Mark
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