Talk:Mel Boring

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Is Mel Boring the author of Mel Lyle's Power Boys novels?
I am wondering whether Mel Boring may in fact be the author of the series of six Power Boys adventure novels from the mid 1960s, written under the name "Mel Lyle", which is possibly a pseudonym, and whether anyone knows of any references that would substantiate this.

It does seem to be quite likely: there is the obvious similarity between the names of Melvin Lyle "Mel" Boring and Mel Lyle, plus the fact that Boring is from Michigan, close to Chicago which one of the novels states that the central characters originally came from (possibly still live in - the books being vague about where the characters live, as they travel around a lot until finally settling in New York City in the final novel).

This is of course not real evidence, but the coincidence is intriguing enough to really make me wonder - and I have been wondering who Mel Lyle is for quite some years, and would be interested to find out a little about him. On the other hand, there is, as is mentioned on the Power Boys page, evidence that it is very likely more than one author contributed to this series - so it is still very much unresolved. I wonder if it would be worth e-mailing Mel Boring and asking him; following a link or two, I did find an e-mail address for him, although of course it's possible it is no longer current.

The possible connection between the Power Boys books and Mel Boring was mentioned on the Talk page for the Power Boys series by someone, and I just came across that for the first time now.

If anyone knows more about this, and can supply references, I would be very interested to hear from them, or see this information added to the Power Boys and Mel Boring articles.

Thank you.M.J.E. (talk) 19:13, 28 August 2018 (UTC)