----- Original Message ----- From: "Hugh Lessig" <
hlessig@earthlink.net> To: <
rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002
9:50 AM Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Nebel
>
> A favorite Nebel hero of mine is Donny Donahue, who
appears in "The Black
> Mask Boys" collection compiled by William F. Nolan.
According to the bio,
> Nebel created Donahue for Joe Shaw after the success
of Sam Spade. Shaw
had
> wanted more Spade stories, but Hammett had moved on
to Hollywood and
refused
> to provide them. (So there.) Donahue is spare and
terse, but well worth
the
> time. I've never seen any Donahue story beyond this
collection, so I don't
> know if there are more out there. I may start
flipping through my
> anthologies again.
>
> Hugh Lessig
I think I've read a few of the Donohue stories and liked
them, too. Nebel's entry in Goulart's THE HARDBOILED DICKS is
a Kennedy and MacBride story, Kennedy being a reporter and
MacBride a police captain (I think--it could've been the
other way around). Nebel must have stories in Shaw's THE
HARDBOILED OMNIBUS and the anthology edited by Herbert Ruhm
(can't remember the title) but for the life of me I can't
find either volume right now so I don't know if they're
Donohue stories or not. When Dime Detective began luring away
Black Mask's writers in the early Thirties with the promise
of an extra cent a word, one of the requirements was that
their series characters had to be exclusive to Dime
Detective. That's why Nebel created Cardigan instead of
moving Donohue over from Black Mask.
James
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