- African American police, African Americans, Coffin Ed Johnson (Fictitious character), Fiction
"Black flim-flam man Deke O'Hara is no sooner out of Atlanta's state penitentiary than he's back on the streets working the scam of a lifetime. As sponsor of the Back-to-Africa movement he's counting on the big Harlem rally to produce a big collection for his own private charity."--Back cover.
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Classical in form, cool, plot-driven and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Chester Himes
- First published
- 1965
- Pages
- 223
- Publisher
- Schocken Books, Dell, Vintage Books
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781568494227
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- African American police
- African Americans
- Coffin Ed Johnson (Fictitious character)
- Fiction
- Grave Digger Jones (Fictitious character)
- Police
- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
- African americans, fiction
- Jones, grave digger (fictitious character), fiction
- Johnson, coffin ed (fictitious character), fiction
- New york (n.y.), fiction
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