Death Before Bedtime

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Gore Vidal is the author of twenty-four novels, six plays, two memoirs, numerous screenplays and short stories, and well over two hundred essays. His United States: Essays, 1952–1992 received the National Book Award. 

In the early 1950s, Victor Weybright, then an editor at E. P. Dutton, suggested that Gore Vidal try writing a mystery novel under a pseudonym. Inspired by writers like Agatha Christie, whose work he knew well, Vidal took the suggestion and began writing mysteries under the name “Edgar Box.” (Edgar suggests Poe, of course, but also Edgar Wallace; Box reminds one of a coffin, although Vidal had recently met an actual family by the name of Box.) In all, he wrote three books as Box, each of them featuring the dashing public relations man and amateur sleuth, Peter Sargeant II. Death Before Bedtime was the second book starring Sargeant, who needs to use his considerable charm to hold his own against some of Washington’s toughest politicians.

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