The Real Cool Killers

Name: The Real Cool Killers
Author: Chester Himes
ISBN: 9780586027981

by Chester Himes

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The Real Cool Killers is a hardboiled crime fiction novel written by Chester Himes. Published in 1959, it is the second book in the Grave Digger Jones & Coffin Ed Johnson Mysteries. The protagonists of the novel, Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed, are a pair of black detectives who patrol the dangerous slums of Harlem. The book was originally published in French under the title Il pleut des coups durs.

First published 1959159 pages

813.54

Category: Literature
Priority: Recommended
Author works: 2
Editions known: 6

Classification

Dewey (DDC): 813.54
Library of Congress (LCC): PS0351.I713 R4PS3515.I713 R4 1973PS3515.I713 R44 1988PZ0003.H57 Re3

Subjects

African American policeAfrican americans, fictionCoffin Ed Johnson (Fictitious character)FictionFiction, mystery & detective, generalGrave Digger Jones (Fictitious character)Johnson, coffin ed (fictitious character), fictionJones, grave digger (fictitious character), fictionNew york (n.y.), fictionPolice

This edition

ISBN 9780586027981EnglishFirst-edition ISBN: 058602798X

DATE DUE

First published1959

StatusREAD

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