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1. Elizabeth Peters, creator of the Victorian Egyptologist and feminist, Amelia Peabody, has delighted readers with her exploits. Along with her husband, the brilliant but irascible Radcliffe Emerson, and her extraordinary son, Ramses, she has solved many mysteries, and been the bete noir of many an antique thief and grave robber. Peters has also written thrillers with her inimitable touch of class under which name?
2. Who doesn't know Agatha Christie? Her books featuring detectives Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Tuppence and Tommy Beresford and Harley Quin, are famous. She also tried her hand at gothic romances under which nom de plume?
3. Ed McBain wrote the gripping series of police detective novels about the detectives of the fictional 87th precinct, and others about Matthew Hope. Few people know that he is also the writer with which of these names?
4. Stephen King is the Master of Suspense and Horror. His books include "The Shining", "The Dead Zone" and "Salem's Lot" to mention just a few. But he has also written under pen names. Which pen name is the one he has used for works such as "The Long Walk"?
5. Victoria Holt is famous with gothic romance fans. Her well-known novels include "Bride of Pendorric", "On the Night of the Seventh Moon", and "Shadow of the Lynx". She also wrote novels based on the lives of famous kings and queens, using which pen name?
6. J. K. Rowling became well-known to youngsters and adults alike with the publication of the series of "Harry Potter" novels, and various associated books, beginning in the 1990s. When embarking on a series of crime novels featuring the character Cormoran Strike, what pen name did Rowling choose?
7. Moviegoers are familiar with the name Michael Crichton because of his association with such works as "Jurassic Park" and other science-fiction and medical thrillers, such as "The Andromeda Strain". Less well known are his murder mystery thrillers, such as "Odds On" (his first novel), written under which pseudonym?
8. Nora Roberts was already well-established as the author of popular romance novels, when her fans discovered that she had also penned the "In Death" series of novels under a different name. What was that name?
9. British author Douglas Reeman wrote many novels about the Second World War under that name, as well as a series about the Blackwood family and the Royal Marines. He also wrote a series about Richard Bolitho, an officer in the Royal Navy fighting Napoleon, using what pen name?
10. Isaac Asimov is probably one of the most famous authors of science fiction, ever. He it was who set out the "three laws of robotics" in a 1942 short story, and wrote close to 500 books. Under what name did he write six novels of juvenile science fiction, known as the "Lucky Starr" series?
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