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When Harlemites set about each other with knives, it's an everyday kind of happening. But when a white man is shot dead in a Harlem street one steamy evening it means trouble, big trouble.Plenty of people had motives for killing Galen, a big Greek with too much money and too great a liking for young black girls. But there are complications - like Sonny, high on hash, found standing over the body with a gun in his hand that fires only blanks, a street gang called the Moslems, a disappearing suspect, and the fact that Coffin Ed's own daughter is up to her pretty neck in the whole explosive situation...
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The real cool killers, Chester Himes
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- 1988
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- Title
- The real cool killers
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Chester Himes
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Released
- 1988
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 159
- ISBN10
- 0679720391
- ISBN13
- 9780679720393
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Mystery & Thriller, American Literature, 20th century, Detective Fiction, African American Literature, Noir
- Original title
- The real cool killers
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- When Harlemites set about each other with knives, it's an everyday kind of happening. But when a white man is shot dead in a Harlem street one steamy evening it means trouble, big trouble.Plenty of people had motives for killing Galen, a big Greek with too much money and too great a liking for young black girls. But there are complications - like Sonny, high on hash, found standing over the body with a gun in his hand that fires only blanks, a street gang called the Moslems, a disappearing suspect, and the fact that Coffin Ed's own daughter is up to her pretty neck in the whole explosive situation...