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rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002
12:28 PM Subject: RARA-AVIS: You Play the Black
> Rene said: "YOU PLAY THE BLACK ... is an excellent
book,
> well worth the republishing. Apparently it was
written as a
> parody/pastiche of the hardboiled school. . .
."
>
> Apparently some of the original reviewers of YOU
PLAY THE
> BLACK AND THE RED COMES UP thought was a parody.
Recent
> commentators tend to take it seriously. Even those
who
> thought it was a parody more or less recommended
it.
>
> Bill Crider
> --
I thought it read fine as a straight HB novel. (By the way,
Hallas/Knight's main claim to fame is a book featuring one of
the most famous fictional canines of the 20thC. -
Lassie.)
Rene
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