The essential Harlem detectives
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Everyman's library volume 417
Publisher:
Alfred A Knopf
Publication Date:
2024
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English
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"Here in one volume is an exceptional selection from Chester Himes's acclaimed Harlem Detectives series. Winner of France's prestigious Grand Prix de Littérature Policière and lauded by Jean Cocteau as a "prodigious masterpiece," A Rage in Harlem introduces detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson in a searing escapade. In The Real Cool Killers, the duo investigates a shooting and discovers an unsettling personal connection. In The Crazy Kill, a man is found in a breadbasket, stabbed to death, leaving Himes's detectives to find out who among the many suspects did it. And in Cotton Comes to Harlem, the brazen robbery of a notorious con man running a back-to-Africa scam sets off a hunt for a bale of Southern cotton. These masterful novels exhibit Himes's evocative, baroque descriptions of Black life in Harlem and his famously blistering social commentary."--
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| Grouping Author | chester b himes |
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| Last Grouping Update | 2025-04-30 22:08:15PM |
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Himes, Chester B.,1909-1984.Cotton comes to Harlem
Himes, Chester B.,1909-1984.For love of Imabelle
Himes, Chester B.,1909-1984.Jealous man can't win
Himes, Chester B.,1909-1984.Real cool killers
Himes, Chester B.,1909-1984.Cotton comes to Harlem
Himes, Chester B.,1909-1984.For love of Imabelle
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Himes, Chester B.,1909-1984.Real cool killers
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African American police -- Fiction
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Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
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African American police -- Fiction
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