Description: "In this gripping installment of the maverick Harlem Detectives series, Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones investigate a series of seemingly unrelated, brutal crimes. A gold Cadillac, about as large as an ocean liner, rocks a woman to the pavement in the cold streets of Harlem. Three goons in cop uniforms heist a small fortune and leave an important politician dead. All told eight bodies stack up over the long, bloody weekend, but they won't spoil in this weather. And Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson have to follow the trail of brutal violence, perversion, and cold murder-and avoid getting caught in the fray"--
Review Quotes: Praise for Chester Himes's Harlem Detectives series
"[The stories in Himes's] Harlem detective series . . . are remarkable for their macabre comic sense and wicked and nasty wit." --Ishmael Reed, Los Angeles Times "Chester Himes is to writing what Miles Davis is to the trumpet, what John Coltrane is to the saxophone, what lips are to love." --Nikki Giovanni "Every one of his beyond-cool Harlem novels is cherished by every reader who finds it." --Jonathan Lethem