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The Essential Harlem Detectives - A Rage in Harlem, the Real Cool Killers, the Crazy Kill, Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester B. Himes; S. A. Cosby (Introduction by)
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Harlem Detectives Ser.
A one-volume selection of four novels in a legendary detective series--blistering, groundbreaking capers set in Harlem's criminal underworld--by master crime writer Chester Himes A friend and contemporary of Richard Wright and James Baldwin--and every bit their equal--Chester Himes is the acclaimed aut ...Show more
The Heat's On by Chester B. Himes
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday Times 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 drug dealer, though, isn't coming back - he died after Grave D ...Show more
The Real Cool Killers by Chester B. Himes
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The toughest crime stories in print' Sunday Times The night's over for Ulysses Galen. It started going bad for the big Greek when a knife was drawn, then there was an axe, then he was being chased and shot at. Now Galen is lying dead in the middle of a Harlem street. But the night's just beginning for ...Show more