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      The Real Cool Killers

      by Chester Himes
      Published
      Dec 1988
      Main Genre
      Thriller Thriller
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      160
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      Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones

      About This Book

      The book that Walter Kirn said was like "Hieronymus Bosch meets Miles Davis" (The New York Times). • Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones get personally involved in a gang dispute in one of the most provocative cases in Chester Himes's groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series.

      Many people had reasons for killing Ulysses Galen, a big Greek with too much money and too great a liking for young black girls. But there are complications—like Sonny, found standing over the body, high on hash, with a gun in his hand that fires only blanks; a gang called the Moslems; a disappearing suspect; and the fact that Coffin Ed's daughter is up to her pretty little neck in the whole explosive business.

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      Suspense

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      Hard-Boiled Mystery Private Investigator Thriller

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      First Edition Dec 1988 Vintage ISBN 0679720391
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      Oct 1985 Schocken Books Inc ISBN 0805282386
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      Jul 2011 Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ISBN B005ACKZEO
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      Nov 2011 Audible Studios ISBN B006BM30R6
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