Re[2]: RARA-AVIS: Re:The Harboiled Omnibus - Correcti

james.doherty@gsa.gov
06 Sep 98 08:40:00 -0400 --UNS_gsauns2_2944278506
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In a recent post Mario said"

"I find it curious that he left out Black Mask mainstays like Frederick
Nebel and Carroll John Daly when compiling the omnibus. Maybe in
retrospect he thought they were shitty writers."

He *did* think Daly was a pretty awful writer, but he inherited him from
his predecessor, Phil Cody, and by that time Daly was too popular to
just drop. Later Daly switched his Race Williams stories over to *Dime
Detective* and, as I understand it, never again appeared in *Black
Mask*. Erle Stanley Gardner refused to be in *THO* because he thought
Shaw didn't give enough credit to Cody for setting the *BM* style (NOTE:
Hammett, Gardner, and Daly were all mainstays of *BM* before Shaw took
over as editor). Just a guess on Nebel, but I think byt the time *THO*
was published, Nebel was making really good money on slicks and had left
the pulps behind. Perhaps he didn't want that part of his career
resurrected. *The Armchair Detective* published a fairly comprehensive
article on Nebel some years ago that might shed light. - Jim Doherty

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