[Earlier I wrote...]
> If it's not too late to contribute to this thread,
just ran across
> a favorite last line of Erle Stanley Gardner's, from
one of John Daly's RAce
> Williams stories:
>
> "I sent him crashing the gates of hell with my
bullet in his brain."
>
> taken from Dorothy B. Hughes' biography of
Gardner.
Couple of folks commented on this, making me realize that I
worded it ambiguously (again)... The line, bad or good, is
FROM a story by John Daly, and happened to be a favorite line
mentioned by Erle Stanley Gardner. Neither the name of the
story nor the date is indicated in Hughes' study.
On another note, I was surprised to learn in the same study
that Chandler and Gardner apparently had a mutual admiration
throughout their careers. I mean everyone knows the story of
how Chandler practiced writing a Gardner story from memory to
learn how such stories were constructed and his tricks of
style, but I didn't know that Chandler continued reading and
liking the Perry Masons.
Perhaps this is a case of a writer's reading more widely than
his fans?
Bill Hagen
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