by Chester Himes · Grijalbo Mondadori · tapa dura · ISBN 9788425329067
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«Cuando el calor aprieta» is the crime novel by Chester Himes, published by Grijalbo Mondadori in hardback (257 pages, in Spanish).
In the stifling Harlem summer, detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones investigate a wave of crimes: suspended for excessive force and with one of them wounded and reported dead in a radio hoax, chaos grows until it culminates in three million dollars' worth of heroin and an albino named Pinky.
The novel originally appeared as «The Heat's On» in 1961, within the Harlem cycle; translation by Diana Falcón.
For readers of crime fiction and hard-boiled, especially if they follow Himes's Harlem cycle.
Chester Bomar Himes was an American writer. His works, some of which have been filmed, include If He Hollers Let Him Go, published in 1945, and the Harlem Detective series of novels for which he is best known, set in the 1950s and early 1960s and featuring two black policemen called Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson. In 1958, Himes won France's Grand Prix de Littérature Policière.
