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Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones get personally involved in a gang dispute in The Real Cool Killers, one of the most provocative cases in Chester Himes's groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series.
Many people had reasons for killing Ulysses Galen, a big Greek with too much money and too great a liking for young black girls. But there are complications--like Sonny, found standing over the body, high on hash, with a gun in his hand that fires only blanks; a gang called the Moslems; a disappearing suspect; and the fact that Coffin Ed's daughter is up to her pretty little neck in the whole explosive business."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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"The action is slapstick, preposterously violent--Hieronymus Bosch meets Miles Davis."
--Walter Kirn, The New York Times "One of the most important American writers of the 20th century. . . . A quirky American genius."
--Walter Mosley
"For sheer toughness it's hard to beat the black detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones. Himes never received the recognition he deserved for his books--they combine elements of George V. Higgins, Elmore Leonard, and Richard Stark, with a bleak vision all their own."
--The Washington Post "Himes's Harlem detective series . . . are remarkable for their macabre comic sense and wicked and nasty wit."
--Ishmael Reed, Los Angeles Times
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--Walter Kirn, The New York Times "One of the most important American writers of the 20th century. . . . A quirky American genius."
--Walter Mosley
"For sheer toughness it's hard to beat the black detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones. Himes never received the recognition he deserved for his books--they combine elements of George V. Higgins, Elmore Leonard, and Richard Stark, with a bleak vision all their own."
--The Washington Post "Himes's Harlem detective series . . . are remarkable for their macabre comic sense and wicked and nasty wit."
--Ishmael Reed, Los Angeles Times
Chester Himes was born in Missouri in 1909. He began writing while serving a prison sentence for a jewel theft and published just short of twenty novels before his death in 1984. Among his best-known thrillers are Blind Man with a Pistol, Cotton Comes to Harlem, The Crazy Kill, A Rage in Harlem, The Real Cool Killers, and The Heat's On, all available from Vintage.
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- Publication date1988
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