Description
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.Author: Chester Himes
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Published: 11/28/1988
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.18w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9780679720393
ISBN10: 0679720391
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Hard-Boiled
- Fiction | African American & Black | Mystery & Detective
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Private Investigators
About the Author
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.