Seymour Shubin began his writing career as an associate
editor for a true-crime magazine, a background that he exploited in his debut
novel, Anyone’s My Name. The novel’s
narrator, Paul Weiler, is true-crime writer whose vocation greases his slippery
slope into crime. Just as the novel’s title promises, Shubin milks the Everyman
theme for every last drop of pathos, but with enough aplomb and cleverness to
earn a spot in the canon of 1950s Noir Well Worth Seeking Out. Grade: A-
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