Miker wrote:
>I'm reading THE SNARL OF THE BEAST right now. I'm
thinking
>that as far as hardboiled novels, the reading list
before
>1930 is sorta thin, isn't it? Carrol John Daly and
Hammett
>are the only ones I can think of. Hemingway was
writing in
>this period, but, except for TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT, I
don't
>really consider his novels hardboiled, and I believe
it came
>out after 1930.
Since Professor T. took care of the few I could think of, all
I can point out is that most of the hard-boiled hordes that
sprung up in Hammett and Daly's wake only made it to novels
in the thirties. But it was the early thirties for the most
part.
If you're willing to spot me a few months, I'd suggest Raoul
Whitfield's DEATH IN A BOWL. And, oh if you can find them,
and you don't mind short stories, find some featuring Tough
Dick Donohue by Frederick Nebel, Jo Gar by Ramon Delacorta,
Max Latin by Norbert Davis, Steve Midnight by John K. Butler
and Dan Turner by Robert Leslie Bellem. Pulpy as hell, but
you don't get much more hard-boiled than this stuff, and the
best of them are every bit as good as it gets.
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