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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 Himes ...

Series series Harlem Detectives
**The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A one-volume selection of four novels in the legendary detective series—blistering, groundbreaking capers set in Harlem's criminal underworld—by master crime writer Chester Himes. With an introduction by New York Times bestselling author S.A. Cosby.“[Himes] put a spin on crime fiction—emphasizing urban atmosphere, street smarts, and uptown ... Read more

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**The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A one-volume selection of four novels in the legendary detective series—blistering, groundbreaking capers set in Harlem's criminal underworld—by master crime writer Chester Himes. With an introduction by New York Times bestselling author S.A. Cosby.“[Himes] put a spin on crime fiction—emphasizing urban atmosphere, street smarts, and uptown
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A Rage in Harlem

by Chester Himes ...

Series Book 1 - Harlem Detectives
**A rip-roaring introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling New York City’s roughest streets in the groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series.“[This] Harlem saga vies with the novels of David Goodis and Jim Thompson as the inescapable achievement of postwar American crime fiction.” —**The New York TimesFor the love of fine, wily Imabelle, hapless Jackson surrenders his life ... Read more

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**A rip-roaring introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling New York City’s roughest streets in the groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series.“[This] Harlem saga vies with the novels of David Goodis and Jim Thompson as the inescapable achievement of postwar American crime fiction.” —**The New York TimesFor the love of fine, wily Imabelle, hapless Jackson surrenders his life
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Cotton Comes to Harlem

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Series Book 7 - Harlem Detectives
From “the best writer of mayhem yarns since Raymond Chandler” (San Francisco Chronicle) comes a hard-hitting, entertaining entry in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives series about two NYPD detectives who must piece together the clues of the scam of a lifetime.Flim-flam man Deke O’Hara is no sooner out of Atlanta’s state penitentiary than he’s back on the streets working a big scam. As sponsor of ... Read more

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From “the best writer of mayhem yarns since Raymond Chandler” (San Francisco Chronicle) comes a hard-hitting, entertaining entry in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives series about two NYPD detectives who must piece together the clues of the scam of a lifetime.Flim-flam man Deke O’Hara is no sooner out of Atlanta’s state penitentiary than he’s back on the streets working a big scam. As sponsor of
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Blind Man with a Pistol

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Series Book 8 - Harlem Detectives
**At once grotesquely comic and unflinchingly violent: the final entry in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives series, set in New York in the sweltering summer heat.“A sensual, surreal, cartoonishly violent and breathtakingly bawdy comic universe.” —Los Angeles Times**New York is sweltering in the summer heat, and Harlem is close to the boiling point. To Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, at ... Read more

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**At once grotesquely comic and unflinchingly violent: the final entry in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives series, set in New York in the sweltering summer heat.“A sensual, surreal, cartoonishly violent and breathtakingly bawdy comic universe.” —Los Angeles Times**New York is sweltering in the summer heat, and Harlem is close to the boiling point. To Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, at
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The Heat's On

by Chester Himes ...

Series Book 6 - Harlem Detectives
Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones are in the hot seat in one of the most chaotic, brutally funny novels in the groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. • "A rattlingly good action melodrama spiced with a maximum of humor and a minimum of self-consciousness." —The New York TimesFrom the start, nothing goes right for Coffin Ed and Grave Digger. They are disciplined for use of excessive ... Read more

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Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones are in the hot seat in one of the most chaotic, brutally funny novels in the groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. • "A rattlingly good action melodrama spiced with a maximum of humor and a minimum of self-consciousness." —The New York TimesFrom the start, nothing goes right for Coffin Ed and Grave Digger. They are disciplined for use of excessive
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The Crazy Kill

by Chester Himes ...

Series Book 3 - Harlem Detectives
From “one of the most important American writers of the 20th century” (Walter Mosley) comes a classic thriller in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives series, in which love and jealousy erupt into violence.One early morning, Reverend Short is watching from his bedroom window as the A&P across the street is robbed. As he tries to see the thief get away, the opium-addicted preacher leans too far and ... Read more

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From “one of the most important American writers of the 20th century” (Walter Mosley) comes a classic thriller in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives series, in which love and jealousy erupt into violence.One early morning, Reverend Short is watching from his bedroom window as the A&P across the street is robbed. As he tries to see the thief get away, the opium-addicted preacher leans too far and
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The Real Cool Killers

by Chester Himes ...

Series Book 2 - Harlem Detectives
The book that Walter Kirn said was like “Hieronymus Bosch meets Miles Davis" (The New York Times). • Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones get personally involved in a gang dispute in one of the most provocative cases in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series.Many people had reasons for killing Ulysses Galen, a big Greek with too much money and too great a liking for young ... Read more

$8.99 USD

The book that Walter Kirn said was like “Hieronymus Bosch meets Miles Davis" (The New York Times). • Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones get personally involved in a gang dispute in one of the most provocative cases in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series.Many people had reasons for killing Ulysses Galen, a big Greek with too much money and too great a liking for young
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All Shot Up

The Classic Crime Thriller

by Chester Himes ...

"The greatest find in American fiction since Raymond Chandler."—The Observer [London]The shocking and explosive hardboiled classic: From murderers to prostitutes, corrupt politicians and racist white detectives, Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones, Harlem's toughest detective duo, must carry the day against an absurdist world of racism and class warfare. ... Read more

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"The greatest find in American fiction since Raymond Chandler."—The Observer [London]The shocking and explosive hardboiled classic: From murderers to prostitutes, corrupt politicians and racist white detectives, Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones, Harlem's toughest detective duo, must carry the day against an absurdist world of racism and class warfare.
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Wife of the Gods

A Novel

by Kwei Quartey ...

Series Book 1 - A Darko Dawson Mystery
“Fans of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency may have a new hero: Detective Inspector Darko Dawson.”—The Wall Street JournalIntroducing Detective Inspector Darko Dawson: dedicated family man, rebel in the office, ace in the field—and one of the most appealing sleuths to come along in years. When we first meet Dawson, he’s been ordered by his cantankerous boss to leave behind his loving wife and ... Read more

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“Fans of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency may have a new hero: Detective Inspector Darko Dawson.”—The Wall Street JournalIntroducing Detective Inspector Darko Dawson: dedicated family man, rebel in the office, ace in the field—and one of the most appealing sleuths to come along in years. When we first meet Dawson, he’s been ordered by his cantankerous boss to leave behind his loving wife and
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The Big Gold Dream

by Chester Himes ...

“Himes is a writer with an enormous capacity to record sensuous life as it is experienced from one moment to the next.” —New York TimesAfter 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 ... Read more

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“Himes is a writer with an enormous capacity to record sensuous life as it is experienced from one moment to the next.” —New York TimesAfter 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
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Fear of the Dark

by Gar Anthony Haywood ...

Series Book 1 - The Aaron Gunner Mysteries
Winner of the Shamus Award: A failed private eye searches Los Angeles for a murderous white supremacist.Aaron Gunner made a lousy private detective. After a year's carnage in Vietnam and a quick exit from the police academy, private work was the only avenue he saw to be a hero. But the seediness, tedium, and lack of real power crushed his hopes, and he quit the job after inadvertently setting a ... Read more

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Winner of the Shamus Award: A failed private eye searches Los Angeles for a murderous white supremacist.Aaron Gunner made a lousy private detective. After a year's carnage in Vietnam and a quick exit from the police academy, private work was the only avenue he saw to be a hero. But the seediness, tedium, and lack of real power crushed his hopes, and he quit the job after inadvertently setting a
... Read more
Bindlestiff

by Bill Pronzini ...

Series Book 10 - A Nameless Detective Mystery
His P.I. license reinstated, his old friend Eberhardt back on his feet, and things with his girlfriend Kerry patched up, Nameless is ready to roll again. On his first day back at work, he lands an assignment he would have thought went out with the Great Depression: tracking down a hobo.It's hard to imagine the prim Miss Arlene Bradford wanting to find a father thought to be living the life of a ... Read more

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His P.I. license reinstated, his old friend Eberhardt back on his feet, and things with his girlfriend Kerry patched up, Nameless is ready to roll again. On his first day back at work, he lands an assignment he would have thought went out with the Great Depression: tracking down a hobo.It's hard to imagine the prim Miss Arlene Bradford wanting to find a father thought to be living the life of a
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