The Real Cool Killers Av Chester Himes

<p><b>''The toughest crime stories in print'' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br>The night''s over for Ulysses Galen. It started going bad for the big Greek when a knife was drawn, then there was an axe, then he was being chased and shot at. Now Galen is lying dead in the middle of a Harlem street. But the night''s just beginning for detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson. Because they have a smoking gun but it couldn''t have killed Galen, and they <i>had</i> a suspect but a gang called the Real Cool Moslems took him. And as patrol cars and search teams descend on the neighbourhood, their case threatens to take a turn for the personal.<br><br><i>The</i> <i>Real Cool Killers </i>is loaded with grizzly comedy and with all the raucous, threatening energy of the streets it''s set on.</p>