The Real Cool Killers (Harlem Cycle #2)
Chester Himes
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
3.86
· 14 ratings · 160 pages · Published: 1958
Plenty of people had motives for killing Galen, a big Greek with too much money and too great a liking for young black girls. But there are complications - like Sonny, high on hash, found standing over the body with a gun in his hand that fires only blanks, a street gang called the Moslems, a disappearing suspect, and the fact that Coffin Ed's own daughter is up to her pretty neck in the whole explosive situation...
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