The Crazy Kill (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Chester Himes
- First Published: 1959
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature
- Subjects: African Americans, Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, New York City
- Locales: Harlem, NY
The Crazy Kill was the third novel in the Harlem Domestic (Serie Noir) series. It is typical of the series in beginning with an apparently inexplicable act of violence that triggers a network of reactions in the intricately interrelated underworld of Harlem. Superficially, the incident seems baffling, an act of random violence generated by the sodden meanness and madness of the streets. Yet the linked reactions suggests it results from the interconnections that bind all these passionate lives together. The outcome reveals that these events are more than the random trails...
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