You Play The Black and the Red Comes Up
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- ISBN 9789357310109
- Weight: 160g
- Dimensions: 120 x 182mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jun 2023
- Publisher: Hachette Book Publishing India Pvt Ltd
- Publication City/Country: IN
- Product Form: Paperback
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A hardboiled novel of luck and irony
You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up follows the wanderings of a Depression drifter (Dick) as he bums his way from Oklahoma to Los Angeles in search of his son and runaway wife. There he commits one crime, plans another, and is ironically arrested for something he didn't do.
Populated with memorable characters like the mad L.A. Deco, decadent film director Quentin Genter, divorcee Mamie, Patsy, who gilds her sandals with radiator paint and a string of crooks, shysters, and loopy saints – You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up was a bestseller when originally published in 1938, a lost noir classic.
Richard Hallas was the pseudonym of Eric Knight, an Englishman otherwise known, for the almost totally opposite novel Lassie Come-Home.
