TY - SER
KW - Pittsburgh Police
KW - Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)
KW - detectives
KW - librarians
KW - Polish Americans
KW - Hungarian Americans
KW - prisoners
KW - private investigators
AU - C. V. Cunningham
AB - Los Angeles millionaire Frederick Summers hires private investigator Alan Macklin to research the mysterious past of his fiancé, poetess Sylvia West.  Clues found in Sylvia’s poetry lead Macklin to Pittsburgh where the investigation continues.
C1 - 1958
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Downtown; William Penn Hotel; Point State Park; Hill District; Oakland; Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh; Squirrel Hill; Schenley Park; George Westinghouse Memorial
C4 - Mystery; Detective
CY - Garden City, NY
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - C. V. Cunningham is a pseudonym of Howard Fast (1914-2003).
N2 - Los Angeles millionaire Frederick Summers hires private investigator Alan Macklin to research the mysterious past of his fiancé, poetess Sylvia West.  Clues found in Sylvia’s poetry lead Macklin to Pittsburgh where the investigation continues.
PB - Doubleday
PP - Garden City, NY
PY - 1960
RN - Howard Fast (1914-2003), born to immigrant Jews in New York, was a prolific writer of popular fiction—more than 80 books filled with political activism. In 1995 publishers boasted that 50 million copies of his books were sold in English and 82 other languages. He's best known for <em>Spartacus</em> (1951), his historical novel about a Roman slave rebellion, which he started writing while in prison for contempt of Congress and being a Communist. Fast, blacklisted in the 1950s by J. Edgar Hoover, used the pseudonyms C. V. Cunningham and Walter Ericson for his mystery novels. He died in Greenwich, Connecticut.
EP - 332 p.
TI - Sylvia
ER -