--- JIM DOHERTY <
jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Daly didn't have the raw talent and
> genuine toughness of Hammett (whom he beat
into
> print
> by just a few months), nor the gift for language
of
> Chandler, nor the ability to grow and learn
of
> Gardner, but there's no denying that he was
the
> first
> of the "BLACK MASK boys," and his fingerprints
have
> been and will be on every piece of hard-boiled
crime
> fiction ever written.
I'm still behind the times, obviously, but thanks for
nominating these guys, Jim. Daly was a better thinker than he
generally gets credit for, IMHO--or, at least, that's what I
try to demonstrate in my essays on him. I think, honestly,
that he bit off more than he could chew--he had great ideas
for things to be written, but couldn't quite write
them.
G.
===== George C. Upper III, Editor The Lightning Bell Poetry
Journal http://www.lightningbell.org/
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