The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 23, June 6, 2004, Article 7

THE FICTIONALIZED HARVEY STACK

  David Gladfelter writes: "Readers of detective fiction among
  us will recognize Harvey Stack as the model for Linda
  Fairstein's numismatic character Bernard Stark in her novel
  The Kills (New York et al, Scribner, 2004) despite her standard
  disclaimer that "any resemblance to actual events or locales or
  persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental."

  The fictional Bernard, a minor character in the book, has the
  real Harvey's expertise but not his warm personality.  The
  story is woven around the Farouk specimen of the U.S. 1933
  double eagle, and others like it, following pretty closely the
  pattern of known facts with many tangled threads of intrigue
  filling in the historical gaps.  To be picky (and why not?), a
  partial image of a gold coin of St. Gaudens' obverse design
  is shown on the dust jacket, but the coin is not a 1930s $20
  piece but a modern look-alike $50 1-ounce bullion piece.
  The novel is a good read even for a non-numismatist (my wife)
  who finds most of numismatics strange and incomprehensible."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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