Only dipping in here and there on this debate, so if I repeat
something somebody else said, forgive me.
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Alanhorn3@cs.com wrote:
> Yes, I meant to say something like
"one-man
> operator," in contrast to the Op.
> I've never read Daly (I've heard it isn't worth
it)
The only Daly I've read is THE ADVENTURES OF RACE WILLIAMS
collection that came out a few years ago from Mysterious
Press. I don't know if I'd exactly say he's
"not worth it" -- it's true he doesn't travel as well as a
lot of his contemporaries, though. Maybe you could put it
this way: if you're really interested in PI or hardboiled
fiction, he's a writer you should read at least a little of,
since he's so historically important. There's also a certain
thread of hardboiled fiction that can be traced ultimately to
Daly, too
(Spillane and Vachss come to mind). He's not *good*,
though.
As for the detectives in the
> classic English tradition,
> aren't they all amateurs?
I'm sure someone else will beat me to the punch on this, but
Sherlock Holmes is a PI (as is Hercule Poirot in the early
stories, if I remember right). Many other detectives of the
British Golden Age were cops (Marsh's Alleyn; Tey's
whoever-it-was).
doug
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