Steven,
Re your comment below:
> It seems that I've read somewhere that
Hines'
> fictional Harlem had much more in common with
the
> Cleveland that he had experience with than the
real
> Harlem. Can't remeber where I read that at
the
> moment though.
Himes appears as a character in Max Allan Collins's MURDER BY
THE NUMBERS, a fictional depiction of Eliot Ness's
investigation of the numbers racket when he was Cleveland's
police chief.
In an afterward talking about research sources for the novel,
Al offered the opinion that Himes's often geographically
incorrect "Harlem" was really Cleveland's "Roaring Third
Precinct," where Himes had, in fact, spent much more
time.
If you read that novel, that may have been where you heard
the "Cleveland/Harlem" theory.
JIM DOHERTY
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