From the

archives: Four novels written in '53 and '54, three credited to Edgar Box, the fourth to Cameron Kay, both pseudonyms for Gore Vidal, who needed some fast cash during a time when his early "serious" fiction failed to sell and he had yet to become an in-demand writer for live television drama. Notice that Vidal blurbed his own work on the cover of "Death In the Fifth Position." Cheeky.