Black Squirrel Press, an imprint of Kent State UP, has reprinted Jim Tully's _Shanty Irish_ (1928) and _Circus Parade_ (1927); the Black Squirrel Web site asserts that Jim Tully "is credited with originating the hard-boiled writing style."
Here's the URLs for the reprints:
http://upress.kent.edu/books/Tully_J2.htm
http://upress.kent.edu/books/Tully_J.htm
Elizabeth Foxwell
Managing Editor, _Clues: A Journal of Detection_
http://elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com
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