# 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: vintage_crime_black_lizard
- ISBN: 978-06-7972-039-3
- Pages: 160
- Published: 1988-11-28
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The book that Walter Kirn said was like “Hieronymus Bosch meets Miles Davis" (The New York Times). • Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones get personally involved in a gang dispute in one...