>This also reminds me of the show Remington Steel. Exactly, and that happened in the '80's, and seemingly the idea of the show dates back to the late '60's (wh

>This also reminds me of the show Remington Steel. Exactly, and that happened in the '80's, and seemingly the idea of the show dates back to the late '60's (when it was reckoned to be too "advanced" for the time). But the use of a male nom de plume has much longer traditions in literature, George Sand or George Eliot to mane just two of them, and even the Brontë sisters originally published under the male names of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. What is surprising is that - in some occasions - it is still needed ...