The Crazy Kill

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. It''s 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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Product details

• Authors: Chester Himes
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.11.2024
• EAN: 9780241692639
• ISBN: 978-0-241-69263-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; Harlem, FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Noir, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, FICTION / Urban & Street Lit, FICTION / African American & Black / Urban & Street Lit, FICTION / World Literature / American / 20th Century, Street fiction / urban fiction, Relating to African American / Black American people