159 pages
English language
Published Nov. 25, 1988 by Vintage Books.
5 stars
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The Real Cool Killers is a hardboiled crime fiction novel written by Chester Himes. Published in 1959, it is the second book in the Grave Digger Jones & Coffin Ed Johnson Mysteries. The protagonists of the novel, Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed, are a pair of black detectives who patrol the dangerous slums of Harlem. The book was originally published in French under the title Il pleut des coups durs (English: It's Raining Hard).
Subjects
- African American police -- Fiction
- Jones, Grave Digger (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Johnson, Coffin Ed (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Police -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction