Mario Taboada (matrxtech@yahoo.com)
Sat, 23 Oct 1999 17:31:55 -0700 (PDT)
<<Is there a consensus among Rara-avians that Race
Williams was the first PI? Did Daley's work pre-date
Hammett's (I'm going back to my reference
works)?>>
Daly did not invent the first P.I. (old Sherlock Holmes was
one, too, and not the first by any means!), but he is
credited with introducing the first
*hardboiled* private-eye. His Race Williams was indeed
seminal; in character and modus operandi he has a lot in
common with Mike Hammer and other ultra-tough vigilantes.
Daly did not match Hammett (or Whitfield, Davis, Gardner,
Cain, etc.) in talent, craft, and sophistication, but he
understood action. In this he was a real pioneer.
Regards,
Mario Taboada
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