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Blind Man with a Pistol

Chester Himes author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Publishing:28th Nov '24

£9.99

This title is due to be published on 28th November, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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The final novel in the trailblazing Harlem Detective series, set in a New York City at boiling point

Bawdy and tough-talking, wickedly funny and wantonly sensual, Blind Man With a Pistol is a surreal joyride through Harlem in a heatwave. Detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson are side-tracked from investigating a series of organised race riots when a white man with a cut throat and no trousers falls dead at their feet. Told in a thrilling chaos of impressions over the course of one day and one night, this case will take Jones and Johnson into the pounding heart of Harlem.

The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler * Sunday Times *
A fine crime writer ... in a vein of sheer toughness very much his own * The Times *
Chester Himes is one of the towering figures of the black literary tradition. His command of nuances of character and dynamics of plot is preeminent among writers of crime fiction. He is a master craftsman

ISBN: 9780241692615

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 13mm

Weight: 173g

224 pages