# 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: vintage_crime_black_lizard
- ISBN: 978-03-9475-997-5
- Pages: 176
- Published: 1988-11-28
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones are in the hot seat in one of the most chaotic, brutally funny novels in the groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. • " A rattlingly good action melodrama...