The Real Cool Killers

Book 2: Harlem Detectives

by Chester Himes

Genres: African American Mystery & Detective; Hard-Boiled; Private Investigators

Synopsis

Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones get personally involved in a gang dispute in The Real Cool Killers, one of the most provocative cases in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series.  

Many people had reasons for killing Ulysses Galen, a big Greek with too much money and too great a liking for young black girls. But there are complications—like Sonny, found standing over the body, high on hash, with a gun in his hand that fires only blanks; a gang called the Moslems; a disappearing suspect; and the fact that Coffin Ed’s daughter is up to her pretty little neck in the whole explosive business.

Release date: July 27, 2011

Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Print pages: 160