The Real Cool Killers by Chester Himes Paperback Book 9780241521113

The toughest crime stories in print Sunday TimesThe nights over for Ulysses Galen It started going bad for the big Greek when a knife was drawn then there was an axe then he was being chased and shot at Now Galen is lying dead in the middle of a Harlem street But the nights just beginning for detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson Because they have a smoking gun but it couldnt have killed Galen and they had a suspect but a gang called the Real Cool Moslems took him And as patrol cars and search teams descend on the neighbourhood their case threatens to take a turn for the personalThe Real Cool Killers is loaded with grizzly comedy and with all the raucous threatening energy of the streets its set on