Spook Trail

ISBN: 1475036396

Author: Deischer, Jeff

Condition: New

Product Description Back after more than sixty-five years, Adventurers, Inc. goes into action to discover the secret of the Scare Devil. Review New and original story of this Doc Savage cloneBy Michael R. Brown[this is a preliminary review]This volume contains 2 stories. There is an original pulp story by William G. Bogart, who ghosted several Doc Savage stories, and the second is a new story by Jeff Deischer.The trio of heroes in these stories make up the team of Adventurers, Inc. They were created as a sort-of clone of Doc Savage and his main 2 aids, Monk and Ham. This is because the story by Bogart was an unsold Doc novel that he re-wrote into a non-Doc story. Doc became Rush Randall. Ham became Malcolm "the Deacon" Dean, Monk becomes George "Buzz" Casey.In the original story, Rush is the lead, with the two as his sidekicks. What was annoying was that (like some Doc stories) Doc disappears during most of the story, with most of the action focusing on his two aides. No further stories came of it.Other then a cameo appearance in a Rook story, this is the first new use of Rush Randall and Adventures, Inc.Jeff made some changes, which I think are good. Most importantly was making Adventurers, Inc an equal partnership, rather then a leader and 2 sidekicks. The difference was explained by having the original story being a pulp story of an adventure of these, which wasn't accurate (as noted by the characters in this story).That said, it seemed that in this story, the Deacon seemed to take the lead. The story was interesting, and the type that Doc seemed to tackle.I hope we see further stories of Adventurers, Inc.