Published in 1953, Anyone's My Name appeared on The New York Times bestseller list, was published abroad and critically reviewed. The novel, which deals with a crime of passion and capital punishment, has been used in university criminology courses throughout the United States. This novel is the story of a fact-detective magazine writer who gets caught up in the personal lives of a case he writes for a magazine. Though published over 40 years ago, it has refused to simply lie down and die. Not only have readers continued to flood the author with letters, but the distinguished house of Gallimard has recently published it in France.