Francis Agustin writes: “Speculation on the identity of one of Spain’s most prominent crime thriller writers, who wrote under the name Carmen Mola, ended October 15 when three men rose to accept the 2021 Premio Planeta literary prize—worth 1 million euros—for Mola’s currently unreleased work The Beast. Jorge Díaz, Agustín Martínez, and Antonio Mercero are writers in their own right, having penned numerous scripts for television between them. They decided to write under the pseudonym for no particular reason and without consideration of the name’s gender.”