Petition to publish Steinbeck's "Murder at Full Moon" :
https://www.change.org/Publish_Steinbecks_Murder_at_Full_Moon
The book focuses on a cub reporter who takes a job in the fictional town of Cone City near a spooky dismal marsh.
“I was expecting a fragmented, bizarre, incomplete work,” Professor Jones said.
Instead he found a coherent, completed 233-page manuscript. “It’s a potboiler, but it’s also the caldron of central themes we see throughout Steinbeck’s later work,” he said. For this reason, he believes it’s worth sharing with the public....
...“Steinbeck wrote ‘Murder at Full Moon’ under a pseudonym... The pseudonym Steinbeck chose was Peter Pym. Professor Jones said the use of the name did not mean Steinbeck had not wanted the book to see the light of day. The author did not get rid of the manuscript, something he had done with other unpublished works, the professor noted.
“He didn’t destroy ‘Murder at Full Moon,’” he said.
It is a lost piece of California noir, he said. “I think he was inventing something here.”
