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      The Crazy Kill

      by Chester Himes
      Published
      Mar 1985
      Main Genre
      Thriller Thriller
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      162
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      Series
      Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones

      About This Book

      From "one of the most important American writers of the 20th century" (Walter Mosley) comes a classic thriller in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives series, in which love and jealousy erupt into violence. 
       
      One early morning, Reverend Short is watching from his bedroom window as the A&P across the street is robbed. As he tries to see the thief get away, the opium-addicted preacher leans too far and falls out--but he is unscathed, thanks to an enormous bread basket outside the bakery downstairs.  As the crowd gathers to see what happened, a shocking discovery is made: There is another body in the bread basket, and Valentine Haines is dead, really dead. It's up to Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson to find out who murdered Val.

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      Suspense

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      Hard-Boiled Thriller

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      First Edition Dec 1989 Vintage ISBN 0679725725
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      Jun 1985 Schocken Books Inc ISBN 0805282173
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