Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones are in the hot seat in one of the most chaotic, brutally funny novels in the groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. • "A rattlingly good action melodrama spiced with a maximum of humor and a minimum of self-consciousness." —The New York Times
From the start, nothing goes right for Coffin Ed and Grave Digger. They are disciplined for use of excessive force. Grave Digger is shot and his death announced in a hoax radio bulletin. Bodies pile up faster than Coffin Ed and Grave Digger can run. Yet, try as they might, they always seem to be one hot step behind the cause of all the mayhem—three million dollars’ worth of heroin and a giant albino called Pinky.
“A rattlingly good action melodrama spiced with a maximum of humor and a minimum of self-consciousness.” —The New York Times
“One of the most important American writers of the 20th century. . . . A quirky American genius.” —Walter Mosley
“Some of the most exciting—and comic—crime novels ever written.” —The Washington Post
“Chester Himes is the best writer of mayhem yarns since Raymond Chandler.” —San Francisco Chronicle
Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones are in the hot seat in one of the most chaotic, brutally funny novels in the groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. • "A rattlingly good action melodrama spiced with a maximum of humor and a minimum of self-consciousness." —The New York Times
From the start, nothing goes right for Coffin Ed and Grave Digger. They are disciplined for use of excessive force. Grave Digger is shot and his death announced in a hoax radio bulletin. Bodies pile up faster than Coffin Ed and Grave Digger can run. Yet, try as they might, they always seem to be one hot step behind the cause of all the mayhem—three million dollars’ worth of heroin and a giant albino called Pinky.
Praise
“A rattlingly good action melodrama spiced with a maximum of humor and a minimum of self-consciousness.” —The New York Times
“One of the most important American writers of the 20th century. . . . A quirky American genius.” —Walter Mosley
“Some of the most exciting—and comic—crime novels ever written.” —The Washington Post
“Chester Himes is the best writer of mayhem yarns since Raymond Chandler.” —San Francisco Chronicle
