I think I'm with Ed on this.  The author and/or heirs obviously intend the works ghostwritten or co-ghostwritten to have their bibliographic identity associated with the name on the cover, not any other name.  (I especially like Ed's descriptive phrase "the whole sordid matter"...)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ed Jones
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> Subject: Re: [PCCLIST] Franchised names
> 
> I'm a uneasy with this. I wonder whether we are serving the user by splitting
> Don Pendleton into two seemingly redundant entities, which for the user
> may raise more questions than it answers. The current arrangement--notes
> on a single authority record explaining the whole sordid matter--can satisfy
> the curious without confusing the incurious.
> 
> Ed Jones