Pale Fire created by Kinbote, features an entry for a "Botkin, V.," describing this Botkin as an "American scholar of Russian descent"—and referring to a note in the Commentary on line 894 of Shade's poem, in which no such person is directly mentioned but a character suggests that "Kinbote" is "a kind of anagram of Botkin or Botkine". In this interpretation, "Gradus" the murderer is an American named Jack Grey who wanted to kill Judge Goldsworth, whose house "Pale Fire's" commentator—whatever his "true" name is—is renting. Goldsworth had condemned Grey to an asylum from which he escaped shortly before mistakenly killing Shade,
Shadow of a Pale Horse Shadow of a Pale Horse Shadow of a Pale Horse was a TV play written by Bruce Stewart which was produced for British, US and Australian tv. Bruce Stewart was a New Zealand playwright who moved to London to work as a writer and actor. "Shadow of a Pale Horse" won him a Silver Dagger Award of the Mystery Writers of America. Set in the 19th century. In the New South Wales town of Cobar, a young man is found battered to death. A man called Jem is found next to him, drunk, and is accused of the crime. Jem