Verlag | Penguin Books UK |
Auflage | 2024 |
Seiten | 192 |
Format | 13,6 x 1,2 x 19,8 cm |
B-format paperback | |
Gewicht | 148 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
EAN | 9780241692639 |
Bestell-Nr | 24169263EA |
A classic thriller from the Harlem Detective series, where love, jealousy and many-peopled mayhem abound
Big Joe Pullen is dead and his wake is getting boozy. When the opium-addicted Reverend Short falls out of a window trying to see a thief fleeing the robbed store opposite, his life is saved when he lands in a bread basket, cushioned by the corpse of Valentine Haines. It's up to detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson to find out who stabbed Valentine - though no one at the wake is keen to say much to the police. Shot through with dry, dark humour, this is Chester Himes at his hardboiled noir best.
Rezension:
The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler Sunday Times