>Daly pretty much just made something up. The
people
>he wrote about never existed--not even close. He
just
>invented a character that survived in the
supposed
>no-man's-land between the law and the
criminals
Actually there are pretty good fictionalizations of Pinkerton
detectives in Conan Doyle, so hard-boiled detectives must
already have had some cultural weight - Daly may have
popularized the H-B dick in the US, but there are precedents
both fictional and non-fictional.
Chris
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