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.
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"
"The action is slapstick, preposterously violent--Hieronymus Bosch meets Miles Davis."
--Walter Kirn, The New York 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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