The Crazy Kill by Chester Himes Paperback Book 9780241692639

A classic thriller from the Harlem Detective series where love jealousy and manypeopled mayhem aboundBig Joe Pullen is dead and his wake is getting boozy When the opiumaddicted 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 Its 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