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The essential Harlem detectives : a rage in Harlem; the real cool killers; the crazy kill; cotton comes to harlem / Chester Himes ; with an introduction by S. A. Cosby.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Everyman's Library ; 417.Publisher: London : Everyman's Library, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Description: xxxiii, 665 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781841594170 (hbk.)
  • 1101908394
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 23 813.54 HIM 023155
Contents:
A rage in 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."--
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Includes bibliographical references (pages xi-xiii).

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

"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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