# The Real Cool Killers

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- Book: [The Real Cool Killers](https://www.bookquiver.com/chester-himes/the-real-cool-killers) ([The Real Cool Killers.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/chester-himes/the-real-cool-killers.md))
- Authors: [Chester Himes](https://www.bookquiver.com/chester-himes)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4152-111-3
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2021-03-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The night's over for Ulysses Galen. It started going bad for the big Greek when a knife was drawn, then there was an axe, then he was being chased and shot at. Now Galen is lying dead in the middle of a Harlem street. But the night's just beginning for detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson. Because they have a smoking gun but it couldn't have killed Galen, and they had a suspect but a gang called the Real Cool Moslems took him. And as patrol cars and search teams descend on the neighbourhood, their case threatens to take a turn for the personal. The Real Cool Killers is loaded with grizzly comedy and with all the raucous, threatening energy of the streets it's set on.