by Chester Himes · tapa blanda · ISBN 8410018025162
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«Un ciego con una pistola» is the crime novel by Chester Himes, published by Bruguera in paperback (219 pages, in Spanish).
On 119th Street in Harlem, a ruined house hides three graves with recent corpses, while detectives «Ataúd» Ed Johnson and «Sepulturero» Jones try to calm a Black community on the brink of rebellion. Protests, inflammatory slogans and a sign requesting fertile women surround the investigation.
The cover corresponds to number 17 of Bruguera's «Novela Negra» collection, within the «Libro Amigo» line.
For crime novel readers looking for a police case with a backdrop of racial tension.
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.
