----- Original Message ----- From: "William Denton" <
buff@pobox.com> To: "RARA-AVIS" <
rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002
10:59 PM Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Nebel
> On 22 November 2002, James Reasoner
wrote:
>
> : I've been on a Frederick Nebel binge this week,
read the Mysterious
> : Press collection from the late Eighties called THE
ADVENTURES OF
> : CARDIGAN, which reprints six novelettes from Dime
Detective, plus two
> : more Cardigan novelettes in the anthologies TOUGH
GUYS AND DANGEROUS
> : DAMES and HARD-BOILED DETECTIVES. These stories
are about Jack
> : Cardigan, an operative for the Cosmos Detective
Agency ...
>
> Aha, another national detective agency. I just
twigged to the similarity
> to the name of the hero of William Shatner's Tek
series (sci-fi detective
> stuff, like a cheap TV movie in book form). The
name: Jake Cardigan. I
> think all the books were written by Ron Goulart,
though others may have
> been involved (but not Shatner). I wonder where the
name came from: did
> Shatner pick it and it's a coincidence, or did
Goulart sneak it in? He
> certainly knows his hardboiled history.
>
> Bill
> --
> William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/
: Caveat
lector.
My opinion is that everything in the Tek series came from
Goulart. I've been told that the first book was written
before Shatner was ever involved. I have no idea if that's
true or not, though. No matter who came up with what, I found
the books to be pretty good, lightweight stuff but
consistently entertaining.
James
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