by Chester Himes · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782264010391
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«Le Manteau de rêve» is the crime novel by Chester Himes published in paperback by Union générale d'éd. in 1987, with 216 pages in French.
Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones are disciplined for excessive use of force and soon find themselves overwhelmed by a series of deaths. Grave Digger is shot and a false radio bulletin announces his death, while behind the chaos emerges a drug haul worth three million dollars and a simple albino named Pinky.
Sixth installment of the Harlem cycle and French translation of «The Heat's On» (1961), signed by Hélène Devaux-Minié. Edition from the 10/18 collection, Domaine étranger.
For fans of crime fiction and hard-boiled, particularly the Harlem cycle by 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.
