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
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