num_pages: 244
description: A Novel by Ernest Tidyman John Shaft is back, Smooth, black, and deadly, the private eye whose initial recorded exploits (Shaft) established him as out first genuine superhero since James Bond, is on the prowl again, this time as the best-paid shvartze ever to set foot into the inner sanctums of New York’s famed diamond district. His clients for this exotic adventure are a committee of Hassidim, orthodox Jews whom shaft as first mistakes for a posse of cowboys. Diamond merchants all, the are concerned over certain inexplicable events—a few murders, some disappearances of sizable gem collections—in what is usually a tightly self-controlled and most explicable business. Impelled by dyspepsia for his newly decorated office and a promised fee beyond any he has every imagined receiving, Shaft steps out intrepidly into a strange world—a world of large icy stones, of hushed, veloured showrooms, of rabbinically cast karate experts—dogged by his exasperated friend from the precinct, Lt. John Anderozzi, and paralleled by a task of secret agents. The action is swift and unpredictable, by turns of violent and comic, and while Shaft comes out on top, one cannot say he is never at a loss in Ernest Tidyman’s pell-mell, sophisticated, and inventive caper.
language: English
title: Shaft Among the Jews
titlecomplete: Shaft Among the Jews
characters: John Shaft
genres: Fiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 51
series: Shaft
publisher: The Dial Press