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Upon learning that Louisa May Alcott spent more than a decade moonlighting as a sordid, heady mix of Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Brontë, I dove eagerly into this secret canon. To my surprise, I found neither the shame of a literary author slumming, nor the through-the-motions prose of one writing merely to pay the bills.
The Abbey of Crime offers none of the playful indulgences of the arcade; you never blast away at marauding aliens like in Space Invaders, nor do you swallow the occasional ghost as a super-charged Pac-Man. As Delcan explains, "there were plenty of games of immediate gratification and this was clearly not one of them."
by Sean Gill
Despite some dapper pretension, there is a basic ridiculousness in "the person of letters" making the rounds on a game show, which, in theory, ought to be a real dignity-leech. Most of these authors seem amused to be on television, as if they can't believe that a network executive signed off on such a thing.
