Sylvia

Year of Publication
1960
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
332 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: C. V. Cunningham
Publisher
Doubleday
City
Garden City, NY
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Abstract
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.
Notes
C. V. Cunningham is a pseudonym of Howard Fast (1914-2003).
Author Biography
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 Spartacus (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.
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