Blind Man with a Pistol by Chester Himes Paperback Book 9780241692615

The final novel in the trailblazing Harlem Detective series set in a New York City at boiling pointBawdy and toughtalking 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 sidetracked 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