He then began using the pen name John Godey—borrowed from the name of a 19th-century women's magazine—to differentiate his crime novels from his more serious writing.
Anschließend nahm er das Pseudonym John Godey an, den Namen des Herausgebers eines Frauenmagazins aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, um seine Kriminalromane von den ernsthaften Schriften zu unterscheiden.