Curt's Read-Bag: The Real Cool Killers

[curt_holman]

Title: The Real Cool Killers
By: Chester Himes (Random House, 145 pp., 1955)
Concerning: Harlem police detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones investigate a fatal shooting and discover a youth gang called “The Real Cool Moslems” and a fraught personal connection to Coffin Ed.
Quote: “Both of the two men rose with alacrity, picked up

Comments

[planettom]

I remember those two characters from the two 1970s blacksploitation flicks, COTTON COMES TO HARLEM and COME BACK, CHARLESTON BLUES.

"Blink once and you're dead!"
"Blink twice and you're buried!"