num_pages: 256
description: Outside the apartment where a wake is going on, the manager of the A &amp; 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 ways he sees a vision of a dead man. Outside, in the very basket Short landed in, lies the body of Valentine Haines. Who murdered Val? It is up to Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson to find out.
language: French
title: Couché dans le pain
titlecomplete: Couché dans le pain
characters: Coffin Ed Johnson, Grave Digger Jones
genres: Fiction, American, Mystery, Noir, Mystery Thriller, Novels, Hard Boiled, 20th Century, Crime, African American
ratings_count: 602
series: Harlem Cycle
publisher: Editions Gallimard