While reading Rick Helms's Back Alley Websine, I came across
this article that I believe many here at Rara_Avis will
enjoy:
A Good Enough Man For Any World: The 19th Century Roots of
Hardboiled Detective Fiction, by JESS NEVINS
Go to:
http://www.backalleywebzine.com/
And click it in the table of contents. The title and
sub-title tell what it's about.
Interesting stuff, considering so many of his here thought
that detective fiction popped straight out of Poe.
Mr. Nevins does mention the obvious MOONSTONE by Wilkie
Collins and others that have mentioned, but he goes all the
way back to the 18th Century.
Thanks Jess and Rick.
Jack Bludis
http://crimespace.ning.com/profile/JackBludis
http://jackbludis.com/
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