Re Duane's query below:
"Is Howard Hunt, who wrote some Gold Medal and Signet PBOs
in the
1950s, the same E. Howard Hunt who wrote thrillers from the
1960s to
the present (and had some kind of plumbing job at the
Watergate Hotel,
I think)?"
Yes. He was a career CIA agent. Later he worked as a White
House
consultant during the Nixon Administration. In addition to
the
Dietrich pseudonym that's already been mentioned, he also
wrote spy
thrillers as David St. John. For a time, thanks to his
Watergate
notoriety, he was, to quote William DeAndrea in
*Encyclopedia
Mysteriosa*, "the most famous mystery writer in the world."
After his
part in Watergate came out, several of his pseudonymous work
was
re-published under his own name. - Jim Doherty
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