In all but his face he was the counterpart of Grave Digger. But his acid-scarred face, the memento of an acid-throwing rumpus one night in a shanty on the Harlem River further uptown, looked like the mask of an African witch doctor.

First description of detective Coffin Ed Johnson

— Harlem Cycle #4 - The Big Gold Dream (Chester Himes, 1959)


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