num_pages: 240
description: At once grotesquely comic and unflinchingly violent,  Blind Man With a Pistol  is the final entry in Chester Himes's trailblazing Harlem Detectives series. 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 apart.
language: English
title: Blind Man with a Pistol
titlecomplete: Blind Man with a Pistol
characters: Coffin Ed Johnson, Grave Digger Jones
genres: Fiction, The United States Of America, Mystery, Thriller, Noir, Detective, Novels, 20th Century, Crime, African American
ratings_count: 900
series: Harlem Cycle
awards: awardedAt: 28800000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: William Morrow & Co.