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Title: The Heat's On (Vintage Crime) by CHESTER HIMES ISBN: 0-394-75997-4 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 28 November, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: aka : Come Back Charleston Blue
Comment: There are a few things you can depend on in Chester Himes's great police procedurals featuring Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones : colorful characters, distinctive dialect, a fierce racial sensibility, and plenty of mayhem. Meanwhile, the stories are pleasantly devoid of the kind of self-analysis and interior monologue which clutter up so much of modern fiction, even crime fiction. The Heat's On is something of an exception. Oh, there's more than enough mayhem and what with a giant albino junkie, a hunchback dwarf, a pony-sized attack dog, a faith healer, and various and sundry other folk about, there's certainly adequate local color.
But when, first, the detectives are suspended for treating the dwarf a tad too roughly (for instance, he dies in custody) and then Digger is shot and reported killed, Cotton Ed lets his slip show a little. He becomes a frenzied dynamo of barely contained brutality as he tears a steaming hot Harlem apart searching for the cache of heroin that led to the whole mess. This is a terrific entry in the series and is particularly interesting for Himes's fearsome hostility towards the drug traffic which was blighting the inner-city even then. His attitude makes for an interesting contrast with the permissive modern attitude of many black leaders, who decry harsh prison sentences for drug dealers. It's awfully hard to see Coffin Ed, Grave Digger, or Chester Himes arguing that pushers are victims of an unjust drug war.
GRADE : A
Rating: 5
Summary: A violent yet poignant thriller
Comment: Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones are 2 of strongest characters and 2 of the toughest partners in crime fiction. However in this volume of the Himes series they play an almost secondary role. In spite of this I enjoyed the book as much as Cotton Comes to Harlem. Coffin Ed will go to extremes to revenge his partner as he unravels this mystery.
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Title: The Real Cool Killers (Vintage Crime) by Chester B. Himes ISBN: 0679720391 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 November, 1988 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Blind Man with a Pistol (Vintage Crime) by CHESTER HIMES ISBN: 0394759982 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 17 December, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: A Rage in Harlem (Vintage Crime) by Chester B. Himes ISBN: 0679720405 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 December, 1989 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester B. Himes ISBN: 0394759990 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 December, 1988 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Run Man Run by Chester Himes ISBN: 0786702095 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Pub. Date: 01 July, 1995 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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