num_pages: 192
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 (Harlem Cycle, #8)
characters: Grave Digger Jones, Coffin Ed Johnson
genres: 20th Century, Crime, African American, Novels, Thriller, Noir, Fiction, Detective, The United States Of America, Mystery
ratings_count: 899
series: Harlem Cycle
awards: awardedAt: 28800000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group