In this gripping installment of the maverick Harlem Detectives series, Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones investigate a series of seemingly unrelated, brutal crimes.
Bodies are dropping in the streets of Harlem, but in the bitter winter cold, they won’t spoil. A witness sees a Cadillac that looks as though it’s made of solid gold hurl an old woman to the street before peeling off. A shoot-out in front of a bar kills two and puts a politician in a coma. Not to mention that a whole lot of money has vanished into thin air. Now detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson have to squeeze the surprising truth out of sparse facts and get to the bottom of this explosive mystery. All Shot Up is an exhilarating ride through hard-boiled Harlem that only Chester Himes could have accomplished.
Praise for Chester Himes's Harlem Detectives series
“[The stories in Himes’s] Harlem detective series . . . are remarkable for their macabre comic sense and wicked and nasty wit.” —Ishmael Reed, Los Angeles Times
“Chester Himes is to writing what Miles Davis is to the trumpet, what John Coltrane is to the saxophone, what lips are to love.” —Nikki Giovanni
“Every one of his beyond-cool Harlem novels is cherished by every reader who finds it.” —Jonathan Lethem
In this gripping installment of the maverick Harlem Detectives series, Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones investigate a series of seemingly unrelated, brutal crimes.
Bodies are dropping in the streets of Harlem, but in the bitter winter cold, they won’t spoil. A witness sees a Cadillac that looks as though it’s made of solid gold hurl an old woman to the street before peeling off. A shoot-out in front of a bar kills two and puts a politician in a coma. Not to mention that a whole lot of money has vanished into thin air. Now detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson have to squeeze the surprising truth out of sparse facts and get to the bottom of this explosive mystery. All Shot Up is an exhilarating ride through hard-boiled Harlem that only Chester Himes could have accomplished.
Praise
Praise for Chester Himes's Harlem Detectives series
“[The stories in Himes’s] Harlem detective series . . . are remarkable for their macabre comic sense and wicked and nasty wit.” —Ishmael Reed, Los Angeles Times
“Chester Himes is to writing what Miles Davis is to the trumpet, what John Coltrane is to the saxophone, what lips are to love.” —Nikki Giovanni
“Every one of his beyond-cool Harlem novels is cherished by every reader who finds it.” —Jonathan Lethem
