I've always been partial to Douglas Adams' detective novels,
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long, Dark
Tea Time of the Soul.
On 10/29/07, Nigel Algar <
montana@dircon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Richard Hallas¹ YOU PLAY THE BLACK AND THE RED COMES
UP, first published
> in
> 1938, resides comfortably in the noir pantheon and
is accurately described
> by Lee Server as Œa kind of tough-guy Alice in
Wonderland, if Alice was an
> army-deserting, freight-hopping, opportunistic schmo
and Wonderland was
> Hollywood¹. However there is a strong suspicion,
shared by Server, that
> Hallas, in reality an Englishman who also penned
LASSIE COME HOME, was
> gently guying the genre, albeit with great
affection. Parody or not, it¹s
> still a fine book and regrettably Hallas/Knight¹s
sole excursion in the
> genre as he died in a WWII plane crash.
>
> Nigel
>
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