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Originally Posted by nabsltd
There really is no way to know for sure if this is true. I suspect it is, because the quality of the Alex Cross series has dropped dramatically in the later books, while other "Patterson" books that are almost completely written by somebody else haven't dropped off as much.
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I agree, except co-authors are listed on the other Patterson books (including at least one Alex Cross book). Why bother doing that and then not do it other times?
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I do have several examples of books in my library with a single author on the cover, even though they are collaborations. Some of the books state this explicitly in the acknowledgements, but some might merely give "thanks" to the collaborator.
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Yep. I have a series of novels (Robotech) authored by Jack McKinney. Jack turned out to be Brian Daley and James Luceno.
And most of the old men's adventure novels (Deathlands, The Executioner, etc.) were written by house names. But at least the Executioner books acknowledged the true author with a thanks.