The crazy kill
By: Chester Himes.
Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
Series: Vintage crime
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: African American police -- Fiction; Jones, Grave Digger (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Johnson, Coffin Ed (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Police -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction; Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Outside the apartment where a wake is going on, the manager of the A & 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 says 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.
Notes: "Originally published by the Chatham Bookseller, New Jersey, in 1973"--T.p. verso.