Dear Bob,
Yes Daly is a hack, but a brilliant hack. Almost every cliche
about the
"classic hard boiled detective" was invented ab ovum by Daly.
Mike Hammer and Race Williams (or Three-Gun Terry) are
obviously blood brothers (and Spillane admitted as much.) By
the way, I realy enjoy Spillane, for awhile he was the most
popular writer in America (by sales); but he often makes the
same "terrible writing mistakes of excess" that Daly does.
With the right attitude, Daly is a lot fun. Vigoruos, silly,
but engaging first person narration.
RRandisi@aol.com wrote:
>
> This is an opinion that is widely shared. Daly is
considered the father of
> the hard-boiled school, and also considered to have
been a terrible writer.
>
> Bob Randisi
>
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