# The Heat's On

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- Book: [The Heat's On](https://www.bookquiver.com/chester-himes/the-heats-on) ([The Heat's On.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/chester-himes/the-heats-on.md))
- Authors: [Chester Himes](https://www.bookquiver.com/chester-himes)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4152-110-6
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2021-03-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones have lost two criminals. Pinky ran off - but it shouldn't be hard to track down a giant albino in Harlem. Jake the drug dealer, though, isn't coming back - he died after Grave Digger punched him in the stomach. And his death might cost them both their badges. Unless they can track down the cause of all this mayhem - like the African with his throat slit and the dog the size of a lion with an open head wound. Chester Himes's hardboiled tales of Harlem have a barely contained chaos and a visceral, macabre edge all their own.