Product Description
ISBN 9780586028704
Publisher: Panther Books UK, 1969
Paperback, in very good condition with only extremely minor shelf wear. Pges are lightly tanned but without tears, creases or marks of any kind. A Panther Book, published in Great Britain, 1969, copyright 1965. 158 pages.
"...a loud-mouthed, wildly hilarious, coldly terrifying, soaked in evil, steeped in sex, shot through with brilliant, lurid streaks of violence." .
The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday Times
Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds. But when the scheme somehow fails, Jackson is left broke, wanted by the police and desperately racing to get back both his money and his loving Imabelle.
The first of Chester Himes's novels featuring the hardboiled Harlem detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, A Rage in Harlem has swagger, brutal humour, lurid violence, a hearse loaded with gold and a conman dressed as a Sister of Mercy.
Paperback. Edition: 1st Edition , not a library or book club edition, clean internally, biding tight. Excellent cover art. AN UNCOMMON TITLE.