The Crazy Kill
$22.04
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
25 February 2025
Summary
A classic thriller from the Harlem Detective series, where love, jealousy and many-peopled mayhem abounds.
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241692639 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241692636 |
| Author: | Chester Himes |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 25 February 2025 |
| Weight: | 147g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 11mm |
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The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler * Sunday Times *A fine crime writer… in a vein of sheer toughness very much his own * The Times *Chester Himes is one of the towering figures of the black literary tradition. His command of nuances of character and dynamics of plot is preeminent among writers of crime fiction. He is a master craftsman – Henry Louis Gates Jr.
About The Author
Chester Himes
Chester Himes was born in Jefferson City, Missouri in 1909 and grew up in Cleveland. Aged 19 he was arrested for armed robbery and sentenced to 25 years in jail. In jail he began to write short stories, some of which were published in Esquire magazine. Upon release he took a variety of jobs, from working in a California shipyard to journalism to script-writing, while continuing to write fiction. He later moved to Paris where he was commissioned to write the first of his Harlem detective novels, A Rage in Harlem, which won the 1957 Grand Prix du Roman Policier. In 1969 Himes moved to Spain, where he died in 1984.
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