William Nolan, in his THE BLACK MASK BOYS, was the first I
read (though perhaps not the first to note) that Daly clearly
was an antecedent of Spillane and therefore to the MANHUNT
school, if one pleases...with the crucial difference being in
Daly's inability to deal with sexuality in any manner more
sophisticated or at least graphic than a dime-novel
approach.
Did Hammett ever write about whether or to what extent Daly
had any influence on his choices, of market if not career? I
don't know/remember whether the lead time in publication
between Daly's and Hammett's early contributions to HB
would've allowed Hammett to even see Race Williams and his
predecessors before beginning to publish his own CF. TM
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Doug Bassett
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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.
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