Black on Black;: Baby sister and selected writings

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Himes, Chester B.

Thrillers & Suspense

DOUBLEDAY

The second volume of Chester Homes' highly praised autobiography, much of it set in Paris. Numerous photographs.

My Life of Absurdity: The Autobiography of Chester Himes. vol. II

Doubleday Co & Inc

All shot up (Panther crime)

Mystery

Panther

The real cool killers (Panther crime)

Literature & Fiction

United States

“Himes is a writer with an enormous capacity to record sensuous life as it is experienced from one moment to the next.” ― New York Times After arriving on the American literary scene with novels of scathing social protest like If He Hollers Let Him Go and The Lonely Crusade, Chester Himes created a pioneering pair of dangerously effective African-American sleuths, Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson, Harlem’s toughest detective duo, who must carry the day against an absurdist world of racism and class warfare.The Big Gold Dream is the explosive and shocking hardboiled classic that explores the shadowy underbelly of New York as an urban civil war erupts on the side streets of Harlem, pitting murderers and prostitutes against corrupt politicians and racist white detectives. Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson attempt to maintain some kind of order―in the neighborhood they have sworn to protect―in a world gone mad around them.

The big gold dream (Panther crime)

A Case of Rape

Four Black American men living in Paris are charged with the rape of a white woman

Carroll & Graf Pub.

The Crazy Kill

Humor & Satire

Random House, Inc.

Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, two Black police detectives working in Harlem, investigate a case involving an albino giant and three million dollars worth of heroin

The Heat's on

Schocken Books

A classic entry in Chester Himes’s trailblazing Harlem Detectives series, Cotton Comes to Harlem is one of his hardest-hitting and most entertaining thrillers. Flim-flam man Deke O’Hara is no sooner out of Atlanta’s state penitentiary than he’s back on the streets working the scam of a lifetime. As sponsor of the Back-to-Africa movement, he’s counting on a big Harlem rally to produce a massive collection—for his own private charity. But the take is hijacked by white gunmen and hidden in a bale of cotton that suddenly everyone wants to get his hands on. As NYPD detectives “Coffin Ed” Johnson and “Grave Digger” Jones piece together the complexity of the scheme, we are treated to Himes’s brand of hard-boiled crime fiction at its very best.

Cotton Comes to Harlem

Allison Busby

It's Harlem, four in the morning, and gambling Joe Pullen's wake is going with a swing. Then all hell breaks loose. A preacher plummets from a third story window. A young black man steals a bag of money, and Valentine Haines is found stabbed through the heart. Comedy and tragedy, buzzing vitality and gritty realism: these are the essential ingredients of Chester Hime's hugely enjoyable Harlem thrillers. And this is one of the craziest cases that Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones - Hime's irrepressible pair of ace black detectives - have ever had to crack.

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