I reread Drake's email to me, and he actually said "the agent for the Kjelgaard estate." But, yeah, who knows who this agent was (perhaps an intern in the law firm's basement?), and how much incentive he or she had to pursue infringement on an out of print book for a dead author. In fact, it's a safe bet that essentially no money could be made one way or the other. So nothing happened.William Leisner said:
Perhaps Kjelgaard has no surviving family, and "the estate" is just a dusty old file in some law firm's basement?Scott Pearson said:
I also got an email from David Drake, who said a bookseller had told him about this a year or so ago, and he had forwarded the information to the Kjelgaard estate at the time. Not sure why the estate wouldn't have been able to quash the thing right then and there.
