Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones mysteries
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Outside the apartment where a wake is going on, the manager of the A & P across the street is robbed. Reverend Short, a storefront preacher addicted to opium and brandy, is watching from a bedroom window in the flat. He leans too far and falls out; a bread basket, sitting outside the bakery below, saves him. Back inside, he says he sees a vision of a dead man. Outside, in the very basket Short landed in, lies the body of Valentine Haines. Who murdered...
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The book that Walter Kirn said was like “Hieronymus Bosch meets Miles Davis" (The New York Times). • Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones get personally involved in a gang dispute in 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...
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...
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The big gold dream , Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones mysteries volume 4
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All shot up , Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones mysteries volume 5
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"From the start, nothing goes right for Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones. They are disciplined for use of excessive force. Grave Digger is shot and his death announced in a hoax radio bulletin. Bodies pile up faster than Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones can run."--From back cover.
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The sixth of the Grave Digger Jones & Coffin Ed Johnson Mysteries, this hardboiled crime fiction novel plays with thoughts of Black exploitation. Con man Deke O'Hara is no sooner out of Atlanta's state penitentiary than he's back on the streets working the scam of a lifetime. As a sponsor of the Back-to-Africa movement, he's counting on a rally to produce a massive collection for his own private charity. His take is hijacked by a white gunman. A duo...
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"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 peace, their legendary nickel-plated Colts very much in evidence, Coffin Ed and Grave Digger find themselves pursuing two completely different cases through a maze of knifings, beatings, and riots that threaten to tear Harlem...
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Plan B , Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones mysteries volume 9
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