It's hard to understand why Race Williams was so much more
popular than
either of Daly's other two PIs, because Daly really wasn't
much of a writer
and his characters are pretty much interchangeable in terms
of attitude,
armament and single mindedness.
All three characters were preceded by an unnamed "soldier of
fortune" who
fit the Mack/Williams/Hall mold perfectly and probably
escaped nabbing the
"first" label by virtue of his choice of a label for his
profession. He
appeared in "The False Burton Combs" in a December, 1922 ish
of BM.
PB
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