Re: RARA-AVIS: The Old Man

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• Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: The Old Man
• From: "Matthew F. Stevens" <mfs10@columbia.edu>
• Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 22:17:12 -0400 (EDT)
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> You're right about Elihu Wilson being an old man, but he's one of the
> *villains* of _Red Harvest_.  The character known as "The Old Man," on the
> other hand, is the Op's employer, the chief of the San Francisco branch of
> the Continental Detective Agency. From the off-list responses I've had so
> far, it looks like he was never referred to by name. 
> 
As far as I know, the character was never referred to by name -- but in
"The Dashiell Hammett Tour" Don Herron said that the Old Man was modeled
after Phillip Geauque, head of the Pinkerton's San Francisco office.

                Matt Stevens
                mfs10@columbia.edu

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