-----Original Message----- From: JIM DOHERTY Himes's cop
stories about Coffin Ed and Grave-Digger didn't start until
nearly a decade after Allison's
"Corollary" was published, so Allison was, in fact, almost,
but not quite, the pioneer Queen said he was.
--Yep. Though there's this, fwiw, from
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/HIMES/himes-coffingravedigger.html
--GIVEADAMN, a Chester Himes site:
The characters Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones are patterned
after two detectives in a short story Himes published (1933)
in Abbott's Monthly Magazine.
--Dunno if that's inaccurate in any way.
Amusingly, among the easily Googled references to Allison is
a 1998 RA mention, wherein students and a professor were less
than enthusiastic about Allison's prose.
TM
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