Chester Himes

Broschiertes Buch

Blind Man with a Pistol

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Chester Himes was born in Missouri in 1909. Aged nineteen he was arrested for armed robbery and sentenced to twenty-five years in jail, where he began to write short stories. Upon release, he took a variety of jobs while continuing to write fiction. He later moved to Paris where he wrote the first of his Harlem detective novels, A Rage in Harlem, which won the 1957 Grand prix de littérature policière. In 1969 Himes moved to Spain, where he died in 1984.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 111mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 172g
• ISBN-13: 9780241692615
• ISBN-10: 024169261X
• Artikelnr.: 70141536