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At least Eric van Lustbader is an excellent author in his own right; some of these others, nobody's ever heard of.
It used to be very common for publishing houses to use "house names" for publishing the more "throw-away" kind of series fiction. Especially common for "juvenile" fiction Eg, "Franklin F. Dixon" for the "Hardy Boys" series, "Caroline Keene" for the "Nancy Drew" books, "Victor Appleton" for the "Tom Swift" books; these were all "house names" - the actual titles themselves were "farmed out" to be written by "hack" writers.
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