From โone of the most important American writers of the 20th centuryโ (Walter Mosley) comes a classic thriller in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives series, in which love and jealousy erupt into violence.ย
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One early morning,ย Reverend Short is watching from his bedroom window as the A&P across the street is robbed. As he triesย to see the thief get away, the opium-addicted preacher leansย too far and falls out--but he isย unscathed, thanks to an enormousย bread basket outside the bakery downstairs. ย 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,ย really dead. It's up to Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Edย Johnson to find out who murderedย Val.