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The Crazy Kill

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By (author): Chester Himes

A classic thriller from the Harlem Detective series, where love, jealousy and many-peopled mayhem abound

Big Joe Pullen is dead and his wake is getting boozy. When the opium-addicted Reverend Short falls out of a window trying to see a thief fleeing the robbed store opposite, his life is saved when he lands in a bread basket, cushioned by the corpse of Valentine Haines. Its up to detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson to find out who stabbed Valentine though no one at the wake is keen to say much to the police. Shot through with dry, dark humour, this is Chester Himes at his hardboiled noir best.

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Will deliver when available. Publication date 28 Nov 2024

Product Details
  • Weight: 147g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Nov 2024
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780241692639

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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