Friday, August 28, 2020

Forgotten Stories: "A Gift of the Gods" by Carroll John Daly (1923)


Back in January 1923, four months before Carroll John Daly introduced "Three Gun" Terry Mack, the first hardboiled private detective, "A Gift of the Gods" appeared in People's magazine. This is the earliest known (so far) adventure of a tough-talking kid named Chester Robinson, who appears to have been Daly's first series character. Chester's gutter English got Daly warmed up for the hardboiled narration of Terry Mack and (two weeks later) his longer-lived successor Race Williams. 

Chester himself moved to Argosy All-Story Weekly in March 1923, where he appeared in at least four more adventures, and possibly a couple more. My thanks to pulp historian Sai Shankar for pointing the way to these scans on the Internet Archive.







Wednesday, August 26, 2020

HAMMETT HERALD-TRIBUNE: Satan Met a Lady, Part 3 (1936)


Cedar Rapids Gazette, Aug. 21, 1936

Unknown, Aug. 25, 1936

Wilmington Morning News, Aug. 27, 1936

Rushville Republican, Aug. 27, 1936

Wilmington Morning News, Aug. 27, 1936

Allentown Morning Call, Aug. 30, 1936

Calgary Herald, Sept. 1, 1936

Calgary Herald, Sept. 1, 1936

Calgary Herald, Sept. 1, 1936


Madison Capitol Times, Sept. 5, 1936


Madison Capitol Times, Sept. 6, 1936


Newark Advocate, Sept. 8, 1936