Reed Andrus (randrus@home.com)
Sat, 23 Oct 1999 17:00:20 -0700
> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 17:46:33 -0400
(EDT)
> From: William Denton <buff@pobox.com>
> Also, the current New Yorker (the thick two-in-one)
has a capsule review
> of _Nightmare Town_ that's full of
praise.
>
> Bill
My advance apologies if this is a dumb question. Over on
another listserv devoted to Golden Age Detectives, there is a
thread that started with a question about who was the most
seminal influence in hardboiled fiction. The usual suspects
have been identified and examined, with Ellery Queen
apparently picked out of the lineup. All well and good, I
suppose, for fans of his work. But there was an interesting
retaliation against another's choice of Hammett -- to the
effect that Hammett didn't invent the private eye, Carroll
John Daly did. Is there a consensus among Rara-avians that
Race Williams was the first PI? Did Daley's work pre-date
Hammett's (I'm going back to my reference works)?
Any thoughts or comments, or is this a thread that's already
been driven into the mould?
... Reed
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