by Chester Himes · Ediciones Forum · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788485604890
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«La Banda de los Musulmanes» is the crime novel by Chester Himes, published by Ediciones Forum in paperback (90 pages, in Spanish).
Detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, of the New York police, investigate the death of a white man in a Harlem club. The case uncovers a web of corruption and violence in the neighborhood, narrated with sarcasm and a fatalistic outlook.
It is number 34 in the Círculo del Crimen collection; the edition is from 1983 and includes interior illustrations by Jorge Núñez and Fernando Enriquez. The original title is The Real Cool Killers.
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.
