The Detective Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson Harlem crime novels are originals with few precedents. Chester Himes published many of them as paperback originals in this country.

FROM THE PUBLISHER - The author of THE HEAT'S ON and COTTON COMES TO HARLEM offers here one of his most dramatic and suspenseful crime stories. A white plainclothesman with a wicked trigger finger starts the ball rolling, and there is no letup for the reader until the very last page. Walker, one of New York's not very 'finest,' is a perpetually drunk, psychotic, detective, vicious with any man unlucky enough to get in his way at the wrong time. Staggering into a restaurant on a freezing day, he kills two Negro workers 'because they were there,' and pursues a third who witnessed the murders, determined to kill him as well. Thus opens Mr. Himes' latest novel of violence pursuit and suspense and it is a hard-hitting tense story all the way. There is a skillfully developing cat-and-mouse game played out between Walker and his brother-in-law on the Force; there is the fleeing Negro's affair with a nightclub entertainer; plus brilliant flashes of local color from the seamy New York night scene. Chester Himes delivers savory entertainment for readers who like their reading meat rare and their action highly seasoned. In this novel the reader will find confirmation of the N.Y. Herald Tribune's comment that 'Himes is skilled at quick-action prose,' and the St. Louis Post Dispatch's observation that he has a 'tremendous talent for packing a story with wild action.'

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