The Crazy Kill |
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| Authors: | Himes, Chester |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| BISAC/Subject: | FIC050000, FIC022010, FIC031010 |
| ISBN: | 9780307803238, Related ISBNs: 0307803236, 0679725725, 9780307803238, 9780679725725 |
| Classification: | Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 160, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
The Crazy Kill
Outside the apartment where a wake is going on, the manager of the A&P across the street is robbed. Reverend Short, a storefront preacher addicted to opium and brandy, is watching from a bedroom window in the flat. He leans too far and falls out; a bread basket, sitting outside the bakery below, saves him. Back inside, he says he sees a vision of a dead man. Outside, in the very basket Short landed in, lies the body of Valentine Haines. Who murdered Val? It is up to Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson to find out.
"The word is out on the street, and the hopheads and whores and flimflam artists are running scared: Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones are back in print." —Newsweek
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