Blind Man with a Pistol - (Harlem Detectives) by Chester Himes (Paperback)

The final entry in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives series, set in New York in the sweltering summer heat.

This book is a sensual, surreal, cartoonishly violent and breathtakingly bawdy comic universe.

A raw but bracing locale bursting with life and sadness, joyously bitter as well as unabashedly sensual.

With legendary nickel-plated Colts very much in evidence, Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones find themselves pursuing two completely different cases through a maze of knifings, beatings, and riots that threaten to tear Harlem apart.

This is a must read for fans of crime fiction and those who appreciate the nuances of race relations and police-work.