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Books : Literature & Fiction : Authors, A-Z : ( H ) : Himes, Chester
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Con man Deke O'Hara is out of the state penitentiary and hoping to work the scam of a lifetime. But the 87,000 dollars he had schemed has been hijacked and hidden in a bale of cotton. Worse still, Harlem's toughest cops are on everyone's trail.
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From the start, nothing goes fright for Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones. They are disciplined for use of excessive force. Grave Digger is shot and his death announced in a hoax radio bulletin. Bodies pile up faster than Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones can run. Yet, try as they might, they always seem to be one hot step behind the cause of all the mayhem--three million dollars' worth of heroine and a simple albino called Pinky.
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With precision of imagery and description, A Case of Rape, penned by acclaimed novelist Chester Himes (If He Hollers Let Him Go, Cotton Comes to Harlem), create the typical mystery, then peels away layer after layer of truth obscured by unreported facts and witness testimony. yet the novel is no mere fictional account. It is also a biting social critique, revealing the roots and suporting structirue of the monstrous network of racial and sexual taboos that exists in the real world.
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A bawdy, Rabelaisian tale of sex, food and gossip set in Harlem.
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Cover stories: Northwest Muster; Collecting Kenneth Roberts; Inscribed Volumes.
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![FIRSTS: COLLECTING MODERN FIRST EDITIONS: Vol 4, No 5, May 1994 (Collecting Chester Himes [with Checklist], MIDNIGHT COWBOY, An Exploration of Captain James Cook [with Reading List])](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kn0Lhp-9L._SL160_.jpg)

