
In this gripping installment of the maverick Harlem Detectives series, Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones investigate a series of seemingly unrelated, brutal crimes. Bodies are dropping in the streets of Harlem, but in the bitter winter cold, they won't spoil...


The greatest find in American fiction since Raymond Chandler."--The Observer London] The shocking and explosive hardboiled classic: From murderers to sex workers, corrupt politicians and racist detectives, Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones, Harlem's toughest detective...


It's a typical ground-hog day in Harlem when a guy stealing a wheel off a car sees an old lady ? who's actually a man ? get hit by a solid-gold car in which a sailor, prostitute, & car salesman are riding. The man in drag turns out to be alright ? that is, until he's hit by a...






