Blind Man with a Pistol

Chester Himes

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UPC:
9780394759982
Maximum Purchase:
3 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
1989-12-17
Release Date:
1989-12-17
Author:
Chester Himes
Language:
english
Edition:
Reissue
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At once grotesquely comic and unflinchingly violent,Blind ManWith a Pistolis the final entry in Chester Himes's trailblazing Harlem Detectives series.

New York is sweltering in the summer heat, and Harlem is close to the boiling point. To Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, at times it seems as if the whole world has gone mad. Trying, as always, to keep some kind of peacetheir legendary nickel-plated Colts very much in evidenceCoffin Ed and Grave Digger find themselves pursuing two completely different cases through a maze of knifings, beatings, and riots that threaten to tear Harlem apart.