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 it was also shown in Adelaide, Brisbane or Perth). It was part of "The General Motors Hour", a loosely scheduled occasional series which presented various types of one-off local productions. The show won Best Drama at the 1961 Logie Awards. 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