Word: crime
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inherent in the new body will no doubt vigorously enhance the quality of life here. It is thrilling, to be sure, to stuff rags soaked in flammable material beneath your roommate's door; but how much more so, knowing that the disciplinary board that will try you for your crime will be composed of a completely random group of people--some of whom may be dangerously insane, others of whom may have a deepseated grudge against...
...COVER OF THIS BOOK CALLS IT A "classic of the hard-boiled crime genre," but I can't believe anyone takes it so seriously...
This is the only crime novel written by Eric Knight, an Englishman who worked in Hollywood during the Depression, and it brought him only moderate success when first published in 1938. Knight's only real literary achievement was Lassie. Come Home, a book which inspired the television series...
...Play the Black and the Red Comes Up is part of a series of celebrated crime novels being reprinted for the first time by a small publishing house in California. This book might not be a classic, but most of the others in the series certainly are. The writers of the thirties captured the mood of hostility and hardship prevalent in that decade in ways that have been only weakly copied since then...
...want to read a truly classic crime novel, buy W. R. Burnett's Asphalt Jungle or Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me. This book is worth the effort only if you have a few hours to waste on a quick light book and don't care too much about being surprised or challenged...