Former GalleyCat editor Sarah Weinman brushed off the debunking of her speculation as to the identity of pseudonymous Canadian mystery writer Inger Wolfe in a post on her personal blog, which is also considered one of the top online resources for mystery and thriller fans. "If I hadn't guessed, someone else would have," Sarah writes, adding that the unknown literary novelist's decision to take a genre spin "with the subtle implication that said genre is beneath him or her" may come back to bite Wolfe on the ass with fans. Maybe.

Anyway, yesterday's item provoked somebody to anonymously suggest to me that the real author behind "Inger Wolfe" was Michael Redhill, who like Wolfe (and Urquhart) is a client of Ellen Levine at Trident Media Group. Levine's assistant said I'd have to call Lee Kravetz, the publicist at Harcourt handling The Calling; Kravetz immediately told me he was under strict orders not to say anything about Wolfe's identity one way or the other. "This is the first pseudonymous author I've worked on, though," he admitted as we laughed our way through the conversational impasse. "It's fun to watch everyone running around trying to figure out who it is." Me, I'm not making any guesses one way or the other without one of those text-analyzing softwarez to analyze the prose...