An author first wrote about two characters with this profession in a novel in which an undertaker’s assistant loses fifteen hundred dollars by trying to bake it to higher denominations in the oven. Another novel ends as two men with this job meet a professor writing down the names of every lynching victim in US history. Those two men with this job meet Emmett Till’s (15[1])elderly accuser in (15[1])Percival Everett’s 2021 novel The Trees. In another novel that follows a pair of characters with this job, (15[1])the Reverend Deke O’Malley runs a fake (*) Back-to-Africa movement. A convicted killer named “Mouse” is the unstable friend of a character with this job, who appears in a series that includes A Little Yellow Dog. Grave Digger Jones (10[1])and Coffin (10[1])Ed Johnson have this job, (10[1])as does (10[1])Walter Mosley’s character Easy Rawlins. (10[1])For 10 points, give this profession central to Chester Himes’s Harlem series. ■END■ (0[2])