Love and jealousy erupt into violence in The Crazy Kill, a classic
thriller in Chester Himes's trailblazing Harlem Detectives series.
One early morning, Reverend Short is watching from his bedroom window as
the A&P across the street is robbed. As he tries to see the thief get
away, the opium-addicted preacher leans too far and falls out--but he is
unscathed, thanks to an enormous bread basket outside the bakery
downstairs. As the crowd gathers to see what happened, a shocking
discovery is made: There is another body in the bread basket, and
Valentine Haines is dead, really dead. It's up to Grave Digger Jones and
Coffin Ed Johnson to find out who murdered Val.