Real Cool Killers | Chester Himes

'The toughest crime stories in print' Sunday TimesThe night's over for Ulysses Galen.
It started going bad for the big Greek when a knife was drawn, then there was an axe, then he was being chased and shot at.
Now Galen is lying dead in the middle of a Harlem street.
But the night's just beginning for detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson.
Because they have a smoking gun but it couldn't have killed Galen, and they had a suspect but a gang called the Real Cool Moslems took him.
And as patrol cars and search teams descend on the neighbourhood, their case threatens to take a turn for the personal.The Real Cool Killers is loaded with grizzly comedy and with all the raucous, threatening energy of the streets it's set on.