YOU PLAY THE BLACK AND THE RED COMES UP.

HALLAS, Richard.

ISBN 10: 0839826532 / ISBN 13: 9780839826538

Published by Gregg Press, Boston, 1980., 1980

About this Item

8vo, 213pp. A very good hardback copy in faded dust jacket with insect damage to spine.

Seller Inventory # 112086

Bibliographic Details

• Title: YOU PLAY THE BLACK AND THE RED COMES UP.
• Publisher: Gregg Press, Boston, 1980.
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0839826532
• ISBN 13: 9780839826538
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Crime Literature

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Synopsis

Book by Hallas, Richard

About the Author

Richard Hallas is the pseudonym for Eric Knight.  Knight was born April 10, 1897 in Yorkshire, England. As the creator of Lassie Come Home, he uses these lush countryside was the setting he chose for Lassie's adventures. Knight grew up in the mill towns where stories of ""come-home"" dogs were common. He was raised by an aunt and uncle and worked and went to school as a youngster part time. Immigrating to the US in 1912, he settled in Philadelphia. He studied music and art and attended the Cambridge Latin School in Massachusettes. In 1943, while serving as a major in the film unit of the U.S. Army Special Services section, he was killed in the crash of a military transport plane in the jungle of Surinam. You Play the Black and Red Comes Up (1938) was his only crime novel. He is also the author of Lassie Come Home, The Flying Yorkshireman, and the bestselling novel about the London blitz, This Above All (1941).

Matt Groening was born on February 15, 1954 in Portland, Oregon. He attended Evergreen State College and was the editor of the campus newspaper. He moved to LA in 1973 and sold his comic strip Life in Hell to the LA Weekly. Producer James L. Brooks asked Groening to create animated shorts for The Tracey Ullman Show and the legendary cartoon The Simpsons was born. Groening went on to also create the hit television cartoon Futurama. He has won at total of 12 Emmy Awards, 10 for The Simpsons and 2 for Futurama. Groening receieved the 2002 National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2012.