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The Big Gold Dream

English

By (author): Chester Himes

Fast-paced and hard-boiled, this Harlem Detectives novel follows a pile of stolen money or it would if anyone could find it

Alberta Wright drops dead on the street during a sermon by the charismatic con man Sweet Prophet. Her partner rushes home to avoid the cops, only to find her apartment looted by someone looking for her stash of cash. But soon it becomes apparent that there are number of players in the race for Albertas dough. Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones are called in to investigate, but they know full well the bodies havent stopped dropping yet.

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Will deliver when available. Publication date 28 Nov 2024

Product Details
  • Weight: 159g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Nov 2024
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780241692622

About Chester Himes

Chester Himes was born in Jefferson City Missouri in 1909 and grew up in Cleveland. Aged 19 he was arrested for armed robbery and sentenced to 25 years in jail. In jail he began to write short stories some of which were published in Esquire magazine. Upon release he took a variety of jobs from working in a California shipyard to journalism to script-writing while continuing to write fiction. He later moved to Paris where he was commissioned to write the first of his Harlem detective novels A Rage in Harlem which won the 1957 Grand Prix du Roman Policier. In 1969 Himes moved to Spain where he died in 1984.

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