The Big Gold Dream Author:Chester Himes Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson, Harlem's toughest detective duo, must carry the day against an absurdist world of racism and class warfare. The Big Gold Dream is the explosive and shocking hardboiled classic that explores the shadowy underbelly of New York as a urban civil war erupts on the side streets of Harlem, pitting murderers an... more »d prostitutes against corrupt politicians and racist white detectives. Jones and Johnson attempt to maintain some kind of order in the neighborhood they have sworn to protect in a world gone mad around them.« less