Mark,
Re your response to Duane's question below:
> "And, to keep it on topic, wasn't there a
CANNON
> tie-in novel by WIlliam
> Johnstone or Harry Whittington or
somebody?"
>
> Wasn't it Jim Thompson?
There were a half-dozen or so novels based on the CANNON TV
series, written (or credited to) three different writers,
Richard Gallagher, Paul Denver, and Douglas Enfer. I've never
heard of any of these writers, and for all I know, they may
have been "house names" that the publisher slapped onto the
books regardless of who they actually hired to write
them.
I've never read the CANNON novels, but I believe
(perhaps Kevin or Gary or Bill or some other more
knowledgeable PI/paperback guru can say for sure) that the
novels were original stories rather than novelizations of
scripts that had been produced for the TV series.
Jim Thompson wrote an original novel called IRONSIDE, based
on the Raymond Burr cop show. It' supposed to be fairly
expensive these days if you come across a copy.
According to a friend of mine out in California, there was
talk some years ago of doing a new, feature-length theatrical
version of IRONSIDE, with a script based on the Thompson
novel. I don't know what ever came of that project, if, in
fact, the rumor was accurate.
JIM DOHERTY
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