Jack Bludis said: The earliest work that I remember coming
across it was Hemingway in THE SUN ALSO RISES, 1926.
***************** I think somebody credited Twain with
coining the phrase, but origins are often hard to
determine.
Evidently the word was getting fairly popular by the end of
the 20's. Race Williams declares himself hardboiled twice
within the first 50 pages of Daly's THE SNARL OF THE BEAST,
which came out in 1927.
miker
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