Stephen Mertz says in his article Brian T. pointed out:
"It is recorded fact that Daly, in the pages of Black Mask in
1923, produced the first hardboiled private eye story,
predating Hammett's first Continental Op tale by a number of
months."
Isn't it always a bit dangerous to point out someone or
something was the first one? There certainly were hardboiled
stories before that and there certainly were private eye
stories before that. I've read Gordon Young's story about
Everhard, who was a private-eyeish hero who likes to shoot
and doesn't even shake hands with anyone. I seem to remember
that he was more hardboiled than Race Williams, who likes to
show off, which Everhard never did.
Gordon Young had lots of Everhard stories in the Adventure
pulp magazine from 1917 to 1921 - so they stopped a year
before Daly wrote his first story in Black Mask!
Juri
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