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The Real Cool Killers - Paperback

by Chester Himes
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Availability:In StockContributor:Chester HimesSeries:Harlem Detectives #2Publish date:1988-11-28Pages:160
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679720393ISBN-10:679720391UPC:9780679720393Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & Detective, African American & BlackBook Topic:Hard-Boiled, Mystery & Detective, Private InvestigatorsSize:8.03 x 5.18 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.3704Product ID:SCTGJ1R8QF
The book that Walter Kirn said was like "Hieronymus Bosch meets Miles Davis" (The New York Times). - Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones get personally involved in a gang dispute in 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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679720393ISBN-10:679720391UPC:9780679720393Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & Detective, African American & BlackBook Topic:Hard-Boiled, Mystery & Detective, Private InvestigatorsSize:8.03 x 5.18 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.3704Product ID:SCTGJ1R8QF
CHESTER HIMES began his writing career while serving in the Ohio State Penitentiary for armed robbery from 1929 to 1936. From his first novel, If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945), Himes dealt with the social and psychological repercussions of being black in a white-dominated society. Beginning in 1953, Himes moved to Europe, where he met and was strongly influenced by Richard Wright. It was in France that he began his best-known series of crime novels--including Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965)--featuring two Harlem policemen. As with Himes's earlier work, the series is characterized by violence and grisly, sardonic humor. He died in Spain in 1984.
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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