# Blind Man with a Pistol

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- Book: [Blind Man with a Pistol](https://www.bookquiver.com/chester-himes/blind-man-with-a-pistol) ([Blind Man with a Pistol.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/chester-himes/blind-man-with-a-pistol.md))
- Authors: [Chester Himes](https://www.bookquiver.com/chester-himes)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4169-261-5
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2024-11-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Bawdy and tough-talking, wickedly funny and wantonly sensual, Blind Man With a Pistol is a surreal joyride through Harlem in a heatwave. Detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson are side-tracked from investigating a series of organised race riots when a white man with a cut throat and no trousers falls dead at their feet. Told in a thrilling chaos of impressions over the course of one day and one night, this case will take Jones and Johnson into the pounding heart of Harlem.