Dewey had a novel entitled DRAW THE CURTAIN in 1947 and the
next came in 1953 entitled EVERY BET'S A SURE THING. I am
nearly certain that the 1953 novel was a Mac book and think
the earlier one might have been as well. However, my
admittedly distant memory of the Mac series is that it took a
touchy-feely turn in the early 1960s as represented by such
Mac novels as A SAD SONG SINGING (1963) and DON'T CRY FOR
LONG (1964).
Gault's non-series and Edgar-winning DON'T CRY FOR ME came in
1952 or 1953 and the first Brock the Rock Callahan book came
within a year or two.
Richard Moore
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Crider"
<bcrider@h...> wrote:
> Mr. T said, "I think that both Dewey and Gault
*preceded*
Millar/Macdonald,
> . . ."
>
> Macdonald's first book as Macdonald (first Archer)
was published
in 1949.
>
> Dewey had published novels before then (so had
Macdonald, as
Millar), but I
> don't think they featured Mac.
>
> I'm not sure when Gault's first novels appeared, but
the first
Puma was an
> early Ace Double under the Roney Scott pen name. And
that Puma
wasn't the
> same Puma as the later Puma. That's all I'm gonna
say about
that. Callahan
> came along about the same time.
>
> Bill Crider
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