The Big Gold Dream
A Novel
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · February 13, 2024
In this page-turning installment of the classic Harlem Detectives series, a woman dies at a con man's religious street revival, and her massive, secret pile of cash vanishes The charismatic con man Sweet Prophet is delivering an electrifying street sermon when Alberta Wright, a true believer who dreams of pies bursting with hundred-dollar bills, drops dead.
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- Who it’s for
- A vanished fortune turns a Harlem street revival into a hard-boiled trail of danger.
- Genres
- Black Mystery, Hard-Boiled Mystery, Black Urban Fiction
- Published
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, February 13, 2024
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In this page-turning installment of the classic Harlem Detectives series, a woman dies at a con man's religious street revival, and her massive, secret pile of cash vanishes The charismatic con man Sweet Prophet is delivering an electrifying street sermon when Alberta Wright, a true believer who dreams of pies bursting with hundred-dollar bills, drops dead. Her partner rushes home only to find her apartment looted—and a stash of cash she was trying to keep a secret long gone.
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But that kind of money can’t be kept secret. It isn’t in the thief’s hands long before he gets knocked off. And then the killer faces lethal competition of his own. As the missing pile of money changes hands, it leaves behind a string of cold-blooded murders that shows no sign of slowing down. Detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones must move fast to stop the killings in this gripping crime thriller from a master of the genre.
Cash and Consequences
A vanished fortune turns a Harlem street revival into a hard-boiled trail of danger.
Come here for
- A street-revival death, secret cash, and trouble that travels fast
Expect
- Detectives racing to stop a string of killings
- A layered crime thriller as the money changes hands
Where it sits
| Black Mystery | 64% |
|---|---|
| Hard-Boiled Mystery | 58% |
| Black Urban Fiction | 22% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Hard-Boiled Mystery
- Private Eye Fiction
- Black Mystery
- Authors
- Chester Himes
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- February 13, 2024
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Hard-Boiled Mystery