Re: RARA-AVIS: here's some interesting parallels

MT (matrxtech@sprintmail.com)
Thu, 01 Oct 1998 13:59:22 -0500 Gatsby is from 1925 - therefore it does predate the first hardboiled
*novels*, written by Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammett, and Raoul
Whitfield, by a few years. However, I can't see it as a hardboiled book.
Nor is Nick a hardboiled character. I would also say that Gatsby is a
much greater novel than all of those, which of course says nothing about
whether it's hardboiled.

However, if we look at stories instead of novels, Carroll John Daly's
_Knights of the Open Palm_, thought to be the first hardboiled P.I.
story, is from 1923, as is Hammett's _Arson Plus_ (the first Op story).
So cronologically Daly's and Hammett's PIs precede Gatsby.

Regards,

MT
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