Jack,
Re your question below:
> That said: Didn't Sam Spade follow the
same
> paradigm?
Spade's one novel and three short stories are all third
person narratives, and Spade apprenticed at "one of the big
agencies in Seattle" rather than as a cop, so he diverges
from the paradigm on two of the most common points.
> Did Chandler adapt from the Continetal
> OP and then Hammett adapt Sam Spade from
> Chandler's Black Mask work?
THE MALTESE FALCON predates the first Marlowe story,
"Finger Man" (which was actually originally a Carmady story,
though even that wasn't clear for several stories) by three
or four years.
Chandler's first PI series character, Mallory, appears in two
third person short stories, and Mallory makes no mention of
having been a cop prior to opening his own business, so
Mallory may have been influenced by Spade.
When Chandler adapted the first-person mode for the Marlowe
series he may have been following the example of Hammett's Op
stories and since, in Marlowe's first appearance he's
nameless (he's not identifed by name in "Finger Man"; in
later stories he's called Carmady; and when "Finger Man" was
reprinted in THE SIMPLE ART OF MURDER the name "Marlowe" was
inserted) that may also have reflected Hammett's
influence.
JIM DOHERTY
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