Verlag | Penguin Books UK |
Auflage | 2023 |
Seiten | 240 |
Format | 12,9 x 19,8 x 1,4 cm |
B-format paperback | |
Gewicht | 179 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
Reihe | Penguin Modern Classics - Crime & Espionage |
EAN | 9780241639221 |
Bestell-Nr | 24163922EA |
'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily Telegraph
A con-man is swindling the poor folk of Harlem out of their life savings - and now all hell's broken loose.
The 'Reverend' Deke O'Malley has just made $87,000 by duping his followers, only for white gunmen to hijack the rally and escape with the cash hidden inside a bale of cotton. Now ace detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson must get the good people of Harlem their money back by any means necessary, in a raucous, breakneck adventure involving double-crosses, exotic dancers, a racist colonel and a whole pile of bodies...
Rezension:
The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler. Sunday Times