Bob Toomey (btoomey@javanet.com)
Tue, 26 Oct 1999 00:11:13 -0400
> Daly, being a less careful writer, simply beat
Hammett to the mailbox.
Interesting approach to this question. I imagine it must have
happened something like this: The starting gun goes off, and
Daly and Hammett dash to their typewriters. They both compose
furiously, and coming around the far turn, it's close, very
close, but Daly, ignoring typos, spurning any thought of
rewrites, knows he has the edge. Hammett could have been the
one, could have been awarded that historical footnote, but
no, artistic integrity does him in, and he loses the race.
Daly will forever be known as the first writer of hardboiled
detective stories. Hammett will have to settle for the scant
consolation of being known only as the best...
BobT
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