by Chester Himes · tapa dura · ISBN 9788474103977
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«Quin assassinat més bèstia» is the crime novel by Chester Himes, published by Edicions de la Magrana in hardcover (186 pages, in Catalan).
The plot revolves around a murder and the investigations that follow, in an urban setting marked by violence and mistrust. Himes combines suspense with a portrait of the street and the characters who inhabit it, keeping the mystery until the denouement.
Translation by Jaume Fuster and Michèle Pereira; the English original is The Crazy Kill. Edition published in Barcelona in 1988.
For readers of classic crime fiction and mystery stories with an urban atmosphere.
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.
