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Bawdy and tough-talking, 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 side-tracked 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.
Bawdy and tough-talking, 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 side-tracked 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.
Über den Autor
Chester Himes was born in Jefferson City, Missouri in 1909 and grew up in Cleveland. Aged 19 he was arrested for armed robbery and sentenced to 25 years in jail. In jail he began to write short stories, some of which were published in Esquire magazine. Upon release he took a variety of jobs, from working in a California shipyard to journalism to script-writing, while continuing to write fiction. He later moved to Paris where he was commissioned to write the first of his Harlem detective novels, A Rage in Harlem, which won the 1957 Grand Prix du Roman Policier. In 1969 Himes moved to Spain, where he died in 1984.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2024 |
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Genre: | Krimis & Thriller |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | 224 S. |
ISBN-13: | 9780241692615 |
ISBN-10: | 024169261X |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Himes, Chester |
Hersteller: |
Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Penguin Classics |
Maße: | 197 x 111 x 16 mm |
Von/Mit: | Chester Himes |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 28.11.2024 |
Gewicht: | 0,172 kg |
Über den Autor
Chester Himes was born in Jefferson City, Missouri in 1909 and grew up in Cleveland. Aged 19 he was arrested for armed robbery and sentenced to 25 years in jail. In jail he began to write short stories, some of which were published in Esquire magazine. Upon release he took a variety of jobs, from working in a California shipyard to journalism to script-writing, while continuing to write fiction. He later moved to Paris where he was commissioned to write the first of his Harlem detective novels, A Rage in Harlem, which won the 1957 Grand Prix du Roman Policier. In 1969 Himes moved to Spain, where he died in 1984.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2024 |
---|---|
Genre: | Krimis & Thriller |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | 224 S. |
ISBN-13: | 9780241692615 |
ISBN-10: | 024169261X |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Himes, Chester |
Hersteller: |
Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Penguin Classics |
Maße: | 197 x 111 x 16 mm |
Von/Mit: | Chester Himes |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 28.11.2024 |
Gewicht: | 0,172 kg |
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