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A Steinbeck scholar says Murder at Full Moon, a mystery about a series of brutal murders that appear to be the work of a werewolf, should be available to all. Steinbeck's estate disagrees.

A dog is found murdered at the hunting club in Cone City, a fictional locale on the central California coast, under the light of a full moon. Then the club

Yes, Steinbeck Wrote a Werewolf Novel. Don’t Expect to Read It. A scholar of American literature at Stanford says it’s worth publishing. The agents representing the Steinbeck estate strongly disagree. Credit...Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images May 27, 2021 Nine years before John Steinbeck published his Pulitzer Prize-winning historical masterpiece, “The Grapes of Wrath,” he was working on a lighthearted detective novel featuring a werewolf. The manuscript, â...

Bettmann Unearthing a lost novel from a titanic writer’s dusty desk drawer is every reader’s dream, but that dream comes true all too infrequently. Yet somehow 2021 is shaping up to be a banner year for lost novels, with Richard Wright’s long-buried novel of police brutality resurrected this spring and Simone de Beauvoir’s abandoned novel of girlhood interrupted on its way this fall. Just when readers thought the year couldn’t get any better, news of another unpublished novel has co...

Did You Know John Steinbeck Wrote an Unpublished Werewolf Novel? Years before he found award-winning success, John Steinbeck wrote a werewolf novel called MURDER AT FULL MOON that has never been published! Reclaiming John Steinbeck: Writing for the Future of Humanity. The book reveals that, years before Steinbeck became a famous writer best known for his novels about life during the Great Depression, he wrote a werewolf novel called Murder at Full Moon (which the author wrote under a pen nam...