Chester Himes The Real Cool Killers

Many people had reasons for killing ulysses galen a big greek with too much money and too great a liking for young black girls. Published in 1959 it is the second book in the grave digger jones coffin ed johnson mysteries. The book was originally published in french under the title il pleut des coups durs.

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I can see ulysses galen is shot down in the streets of harlem and grave digger jones and coffin ed johnson are on the case.

Chester himes the real cool killers. No great flashes of description and the story is not as gritty and visceral. Chester himes seems to have changed his style from a hard but poetic prose to something a bit more procedural and simple. Many people had reasons for killing ulysses galen a big greek with too much money and too great a liking for young black girls. Coffin ed johnson and grave digger jones get personally involved in a gang dispute in the real cool killers one of the most provocative cases in chester himes s groundbreaking harlem detectives series.

Among his best known thrillers are blind man with a pistol cotton comes to harlem the crazy kill a rage in harlem the real cool killers and the heat s on all available from vintage. The prime suspect is a member of a gang calling themselves the real cool moslems. The writing in the real cool killers is gritty and straight to the point. 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 real cool killers is a hardboiled crime fiction novel written by chester himes. If you haven t read rage in harlem then it might be an ok listen. Chester himes was born in missouri in 1909. He began writing while serving a prison sentence for a jewel theft and published just short of twenty novels before his death in 1984.

It feels a bit plodding. Has the real cool killers put you off other books in this genre. Coffin ed johnson and grave digger jones get personally involved in a gang dispute in the real cool killers one of the most provocative cases in chester himes s groundbreaking harlem detectives series. It s a crime that chester himes isn t more well known than he is.