YOU PLAY THE BLACK AND THE RED COMES UP
by Eric Knight; originally published as by Richard Hallas Berkeley: Black Lizard Books, 1986. First edition thus: a paperback. Fine, unread copy in illustrated wraps with artwork by Kirwan. Introduction by David Feinberg. Only crime novel by the pen-named Brit Eric Knight is a high water mark in depression-era hard-boiled fiction and earns Hallas a seat alongside McCoy, Anderson, and Cain in the tough-guy pantheon; oddly, Knight's other work of note is LASSIE, COME HOME. PLEASE VIEW FOR MORE GREAT BOOKS THANKS!
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