My first and and still the best of the Harlem Cycle novels I've read so far, The Real Cool Killers paints a harrowing, bleak portrait of the atmosphere and attitudes of lates Harlem, with main characters "Grave Digger" Jones and "Coffin" Ed Johnson as somewhat exaggerated, larger-than-life versions of badass NYC cops. They're great characters, and they -- as well as the overall feel of the/5. Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones get personally involved in a gang dispute in The Real Cool Killers, one of the most provocative cases in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. Many people had reasons for killing Ulysses Galen, a big Greek with too much money and too great a liking for young black bltadwin.ru by: Published in , "The Real Cool Killers" was the third of the series. Unlike some noir, the book is in part a who-done-it, as Jones and Johnson try to find the killer of one Ulysses Galen, a white salesman of a brand of soft drink, on a busy Harlem street. The plot becomes contrived with 4/5(1).
About The Real Cool Killers. Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones get personally involved in a gang dispute in The Real Cool Killers, one of the most provocative cases in Chester Himes's groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. Many people had reasons for killing Ulysses Galen, a big Greek with too much money and too great a liking for young black girls. Chester Himes led an interesting life, and it was interesting to see his admittedly stylized, exaggerated, and sometimes absurd perspective on hard-boiled life in the Black community. Sometimes I thought he was trying too hard, but, as I wrote at the beginning, I still enjoyed reading 'The Real Cool Killers'. Himes' novel is available in the single edition I am reviewing here and in a compilation of American noir from the s Crime Novels: American Noir of the s: The Killer Inside Me / The Talented Mr. Ripley / Pick-up / Down There / The Real Cool Killers (Library of America) (Vol 2) published by the Library of America.
The Real Cool Killers is a Hardboiled Crime Fiction novel written by Chester Himes. Published in , 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. The Real Cool Killers (first published in France as Il Pleut des Coups Durs in ) are anything but cool. The gang Himes creates is made up of a ragtag bunch of bored teenagers led by an arrogant kid calling himself Sheik who taunts and insults everyone around him. The Real Cool Killers. A Grave Digger Coffin Ed Novel. By: Chester Himes. Narrated by: Dion Graham. Series: Grave Digger and Coffin Ed, Book 2. Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins. Unabridged Audiobook. Categories: Literature Fiction, African American. out of 5 stars.
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