I'm almost finished with Carroll John Daly's SNARL OF THE
BEAST, so I thought I'd read George's paper on him. Great
job, George! A fantastic amount of research, and a lot of
good evidence for your androgyny theme in Daly's work. I was
very impressed. I liked both the historical and the personal
details that you mentioned, too. It had some good information
about the origin of the hardboiled genre. And I didn't know
that Daly had a falling out with Cap Shaw and quit writing
for Black Mask until Shaw was gone.
I'll save my comments on SNARL OF THE BEAST until pre-1930's
month. I will say that I haven't been exposed to a lot of
real pulp, so I had some trouble tolerating it to begin with,
but once I got into it and adjusted to Race's excessive bra-
vado, I'm finding it fun and entertaining.
Incidentally, the subject line is just a play on George's
androgyny theme. I know Daly was a guy.
miker
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