The crazy kill

Description:

Outside the apartment where a wake is going on, the manager of the A & P across the street is robbed. Reverend Short, a storefront preacher addicted to opium and brandy, is watching from a bedroom window in the flat. He leans too far and falls out; a bread basket, sitting outside the bakery below, saves him. Back inside, he says he sees a vision of a dead man. Outside, in the very basket Short landed in, lies the body of Valentine Haines. Who murdered Val? It is up to Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson to find out.

subjects: African American police,  Coffin Ed Johnson (Fictitious character),  Fiction,  Grave Digger Jones (Fictitious character),  Police,  Fiction, mystery & detective, general,  New york (n.y.), fiction,  African americans, fiction,  Jones, grave digger (fictitious character), fiction,  Johnson, coffin ed (fictitious character), fiction

Places: Harlem (New York, N.Y.),  New York,  New York (State)