The Heat's On

Author(s): Chester B. Himes

Crime Fiction & Thrillers

'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday Times

Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones have lost two criminals. Pinky ran off - but it shouldn't be hard to track down a giant albino in Harlem. Jake the drug dealer, though, isn't coming back - he died after Grave Digger punched him in the stomach. And his death might cost them both their badges. Unless they can track down the cause of all this mayhem - like the African with his throat slit and the dog the size of a lion with an open head wound.

Chester Himes's hardboiled tales of Harlem have a barely contained chaos and a visceral, macabre edge all their own.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780241521106
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : 0.368317
  • : March 2021
  • : 1.3 Centimeters X 12.9 Centimeters X 19.8 Centimeters
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Chester B. Himes
  • : Paperback
  • : 2107
  • : English
  • : 813/.54
  • : 224