by Chester Himes · Publicações Europa-América · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789721039452
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«Cidade Escaldante» is the crime novel by Chester Himes, published by Publicações Europa-América in paperback (168 pages, in Portuguese).
A city steeped in crime forces special agents Ed Caixão and Jones Coveiro to intervene; a succession of macabre murders seems to have no explanation and solid leads crumble. The investigation changes course when an albino nicknamed «Porquinho-da-Índia» appears with a stash of heroin valued at three million dollars.
Sixth installment of Himes's Harlem cycle, translated into Portuguese by Clarisse Tavares. The original novel, «The Heat's On», was published in 1961.
Recommended for fans of crime fiction and hard-boiled who want to delve into the criminal universe of Harlem created by Chester Himes.
Chester Bomar Himes was an American writer. His works, some of which have been filmed, include If He Hollers Let Him Go, published in 1945, and the Harlem Detective series of novels for which he is best known, set in the 1950s and early 1960s and featuring two black policemen called Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson. In 1958, Himes won France's Grand Prix de Littérature Policière.
