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,
A Shade of Difference in southern states. "Advise and Consent" and its sequels had been out of print for almost 15 years until WordFire Press reissued them in paperback and e-book format in 2014. A Shade of Difference A Shade of Difference () is a 1962 political novel written by Allen Drury. It is the first sequel to "Advise and Consent", for which Drury was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960, and was followed in 1966 by "Capable of Honor". The novel focuses on the politics among delegations to the United Nations and the troubles that Third World nations cause the United