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A RAGE IN HARLEM by HIMES CHESTER
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds. But when the scheme somehow fails, Jackson is left broke, wanted by the police and desperately racing to get back both his money and his loving Imabelle. The first of Chester Himes' nove ...Show more
A Rage in Harlem by Chester B. Himes
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday Times Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds. But when the scheme somehow fails, Jackson is left broke, wanted by the police and desperately racing t ...Show more
A Rage in Harlem (Popular Penguins Crime) by Chester Himes
Category: Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Jackson, trusting and besotted with his girlfriend, Imabelle, scrapes his hard-earned savings together in a scheme to triple his money. But it all goes terribly wrong, and Jackson soon finds himself without money, a job, or his beloved Imabelle. Desperate to find her, he turns to his brother for help. F ...Show more
ALL SHOT UP by HIMES CHESTER
Category: Fiction
A golden Cadillac big enough to cross the ocean has been seen sailing along the streets of Harlem. A hit-and-run victim's been hit so hard she got embedded in the wall of a convent. A shootout with three heistmen dressed as cops has left an important politician in a coma – and a lot of money missing ...Show more
All Shot Up by Chester B. Himes
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Outrageous, shocking, wonderful' The New York Times A golden Cadillac big enough to cross the ocean has been seen sailing along the streets of Harlem. A hit-and-run victim's been hit so hard she got embedded in the wall of a convent. A shootout with three heistmen dressed as cops has left an important ...Show more
Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester B. Himes
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A bawdy, brazen rollercoaster of a novel . . . the wildest' The New York Times A preacher called Deke O'Malley's been selling false hope: the promise of a glorious new life in Africa for just $1,000 a family. But when thieves with machine guns steal the proceeds - and send one man's brain matter flyin ...Show more
Cotton Comes to Harlem (Green Crime Modern Classics) by Chester Himes
Category: Classic Fiction
Scams, heists and murders abound in a high-energy caper from one of the great Black American crime writers, now part of a new crime series in Penguin Modern ClassicsA preacher called Deke O'Malley's been selling false hope- the promise of a glorious new life in Africa for just $1,000 a family. But when ...Show more
If He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester Himes
Category: Fiction | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
Robert Jones is a crew leader in a naval shipyard in Los Angeles in the 1940s. He should have a lot going for him, being educated, with a steady job and a steady relationship. But in the four days covered in this novel, the impossibility of life as a black man in a white world is made devastatingly clea ...Show more
If He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester Himes
Category: Fiction
Robert Jones has a lot going for him: a steady job, a steady relationship and plenty of prospects, until a white woman accuses him of rape and, all of a sudden, his prospects seem a lot less bright.
THE HEAT'S ON by HIMES CHESTER
Category: Fiction
Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones have lost two criminals. Pinky ran off - but it shouldn't be hard to track down a giant albino in Harlem. Jake the dwarf drug dealer, though, isn't coming back - he died after Grave Digger punched him in the stomach. And the dwarf's death might cost them both ...Show more