| ISBN |
9780241521106 (paperback) |
| Name |
Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984 author. |
| Title |
The heat's on / Chester Himes ; with an afterword by Noel 'Razor' Smith. |
| Published |
London : Penguin Books, 2021. |
| ©1966 |
| Description |
217 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Notes |
"Originally published in France as 'Ne nous enervons pas' in 1961 and in the USA as 'The heat's on' in 1966"--Title page verso. |
| Summary |
Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones have lost two criminals. Pinky ran off - but it shouldn't be hard to track down a giant albino in Harlem. Jake the drug dealer, though, isn't coming back - he died after Grave Digger punched him in the stomach. And his death might cost them both their badges. Unless they can track down the cause of all this mayhem - like the African with his throat slit and the dog the size of a lion with an open head wound. Chester Himes's hardboiled tales of Harlem have a barely contained chaos and a visceral, macabre edge all their own. |
| 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 |
| Other Names |
Smith, Razor, 1960- writer of afterword. |
| Series |
Harlem detective series 07. |
| Penguin modern classics |
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