By Chester Himes
Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones get individually considering a gang dispute in The actual Cool Killers, essentially the most provocative instances in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series.
Many humans had purposes for killing Ulysses Galen, an important Greek with an excessive amount of cash and too nice a liking for younger black women. yet there are complications—like Sonny, stumbled on status over the physique, excessive on hash, with a gun in his hand that fires in basic terms blanks; a gang referred to as the Moslems; a disappearing suspect; and the truth that Coffin Ed’s daughter is as much as her beautiful little neck within the entire explosive business.
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