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The heat's on / Chester Himes.
LIBRA PS3515.I713 H43 1988 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984.
- Series:
- Vintage crime
- Standardized Title:
- Heat's on
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American police--Fiction.
- African American police.
- Johnson, Coffin Ed (Fictitious character).
- Jones, Grave Digger (Fictitious character).
- Jones, Grave Digger (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
- Johnson, Coffin Ed (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
- Police--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
- Police.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.).
- New York (State)--New York--Harlem.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Mystery fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 174 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First Vintage Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 1988.
- Summary:
- "From the start, nothing goes right for Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones. They are disciplined for use of excessive force. Grave Digger is shot and his death announced in a hoax radio bulletin. Bodies pile up faster than Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones can run."--Back cover.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984. Be calm. Heat's on.
- ISBN:
- 0394759974
- 9780394759975
- OCLC:
- 18164423
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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