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"Blindman with a Pistol", by Chester Himes, published in 1969.  Harlem Cycle Series #8.

This was the last Harlem Detective novel featuring Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones, New York City police detectives in Harlem. 

The titles of the complete series include:

• A Rage in Harlem
• The Real Cool Killers
• The Crazy Kill
• All Shot Up
• The Big Gold Dream
• The Heat's On
• Cotton Comes to Harlem,
• Blind Man with a Pistol; all written between 1957 and 1969. 

The final entry in the series was to be Plan B, published posthumously in 1983.