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Author:

Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984, author.

Title:

The essential Harlem detectives / Chester Himes ; with an introduction by S. A. Cosby.

Publisher:

Alfred A Knopf,

Copyright Date:

2024

Description:

xxxiii, 665 pages ; 22 cm.

Subject:

African American police--Fiction.
African American detectives--New York--New York--Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.

Other Authors:

Cosby, S. A., author of introduction.
Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984. For love of Imabelle.
Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984. Real cool killers.
Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984. Jealous man can't win.
Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984. Cotton comes to Harlem.

Notes:

Incluces bibliographical references (pages xi-xiii).

Contents:

Cotton comes to Harlem. The real cool killers -- The crazy kill -- Cotton comes to Harlem.

Summary:

"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."-- from inside dust jacket.

Series:

Everyman's library ; 417

ISBN:

1101908394
9781101908396

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1420048783

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)