Jaguar Valley

This novel is a fix-up of the William Bogart novel, The Crazy Indian. That novel was known to have been Bogart’s attempt to turn a Doc Savage novel into one using his own character names.

In his afterword to Jaguar Valley, author Howard Wright writes of his process turning The Crazy Indian back into a Doc Savage novel…

“…Will Murray suggested that by simply changing the names back, “you would have a Doc Savage novel at least as good as The Disappearing Lady, Death in Little Houses, Target for Death, or any of Bogart’s other late Doc novels.”

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“It was this last sentence that planted the seed that eventually germinated into Jaguar Valley. I have thought about TCI off and on for years and have often thought that it would be fun to convert the novel back to a true Doc novel. Finally, in late 2009, over twenty years after I first read the story, I decided the time had come.”