- African American police, Coffin Ed Johnson (Fictitious character), Fiction, Grave Digger Jones (Fictitious character)
"New York is sweltering in the summer heat, and Harlem is close to the boiling point. To Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, at times it seems as if the whole world has gone mad. Trying, as always, to keep some kind of peace, their legendary nickel-plated Colts very much in evidence, Coffin Ed and Grave Digger find themselves pursuing two completely different cases through a maze of knifings, beatings, and riots that threaten to tear Harlem apart."--Back cover.
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Classical in form, grave, relentless and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Chester Himes
- First published
- 1969
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Morrow, Vintage Books
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780394759982
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- African American police
- Coffin Ed Johnson (Fictitious character)
- Fiction
- Grave Digger Jones (Fictitious character)
- Police
- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
- New york (n.y.), fiction
- African americans, fiction
- Jones, grave digger (fictitious character), fiction
- Johnson, coffin ed (fictitious character), fiction
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