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Nov 28, 1988 | ISBN 9780394759975 Buy
Aug 31, 2011 | ISBN 9780307803252 Buy
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Nov 28, 1988 | ISBN 9780394759975
Aug 31, 2011 | ISBN 9780307803252
Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones are in the hot seat in one of the most chaotic, brutally funny novels in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. From the start, nothing goes right for Coffin Ed and Grave Digger. They are disciplined for use of excessive force. Grave Digger is shot and his death announced in a hoax radio bulletin. Bodies pile up faster than Coffin Ed and Grave Digger can run. Yet, try as they might, they always seem to be one hot step behind the cause of all the mayhem—three million dollars’ worth of heroin and a giant albino called Pinky.
Chester (Bomar) Himes began his writing career while serving in the Ohio State Penitentiary for armed robbery from 1929 – 1936. His account of the horrific 1930 Penitentiary fire that killed over three hundred men appeared in Esquire in 1932… More about Chester Himes
“A rattlingly good action melodrama spiced with a maximum of humor and a minimum of self-consciousness.” —The New York Times “One of the most important American writers of the 20th century. . . . A quirky American genius.” —Walter Mosley“Some of the most exciting—and comic—crime novels ever written.” —The Washington Post “Chester Himes is the best writer of mayhem yarns since Raymond Chandler.” —San Francisco Chronicle
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