Blind Man with a Pistol, Page 21

  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.