| ISBN |
9780241521113 (paperback) |
| Name |
Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984 author. |
| Title |
The real cool killers / Chester Himes. |
| Published |
London : Penguin Books, 2021. |
| ©1959 |
| Description |
179 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Notes |
"Originally published in France as 'Il pleut des coups durs' in 1958 and in the USA as 'The real cool killers' in 1960"--Title page verso. |
| Summary |
The night's over for Ulysses Galen. It started going bad for the big Greek when a knife was drawn, then there was an axe, then he was being chased and shot at. Now Galen is lying dead in the middle of a Harlem street. But the night's just beginning for detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson. Because they have a smoking gun but it couldn't have killed Galen, and they had a suspect but a gang called the Real Cool Moslems took him. And as patrol cars and search teams descend on the neighbourhood, their case threatens to take a turn for the personal. The Real Cool Killers is loaded with grizzly comedy and with all the raucous, threatening energy of the streets it's set on. |
| Subjects |
Johnson, Coffin Ed (Fictitious character) Fiction |
| Jones, Grave Digger (Fictitious character) Fiction |
| African American detectives -- New York (State) New York -- Fiction |
| Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction |
| Genre |
Detective and mystery fiction |
| Series |
Harlem detective series 02. |
| Penguin modern classics |
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