--- Chris Routledge <
srcrout@ntlworld.com> wrote:
All I was saying was that there
> are precedents both
> fictional and non-fictional for the hard-boiled
dick
> before Daly.
I agree.
> You should be very suspicious of "accepted"
literary
> trivia.
A truly hard-boiled suspicion of authority there, if I may
say so!
Daly is
> considered the daddy of them all, but it's only
a
> theory...
Well, it would be hard to argue that. However, it's a theory
that will stand unless and until someone finds something
earlier. And a lot of people have looked.
(Me included--I'm still looking).
G.
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