An hour later Lieutenant Anderson had Grave Digger on the radio-phone. “Can’t you men stop that riot?” he demanded.
“It’s out of hand, boss,” Grave Digger said.
“All right, I’ll call for reinforcements. What started it?”
“A blind man with a pistol.”
“What’s that?”
“You heard me, boss.”
“That don’t make any sense.”
“Sure don’t.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CHESTER HIMES was born in Missouri in 1909. He began writing while serving a prison sentence for a jewel theft and published just short of twenty novels before his death in 1984. Among his best-known thrillers are Cotton Comes to Harlem, The Crazy Kill, A Rage in Harlem, The Real Cool Killers, and The Heat’s On, all available from Vintage.