At once grotesquely comic and unflinchingly violent, Blind ManWith a Pistolis the final entry in Chester Himes's trailblazing Harlem Detectives series. 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 times it seems as if the whole world has gone mad. Trying, as always, to keep some kind of peace their legendary nickel-plated Colts very much in evidence Coffin Ed and Grave Digger find themselves pursuing two completely different cases through a maze of knifings, beatings, and riots that threaten...
At once grotesquely comic and unflinchingly violent, Blind ManWith a Pistolis the final entry in Chester Himes's trailblazing Harlem Detecti...
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 takeis hijacked by white gunmen and hidden in a bale of cotton that suddenly everyone wants to get his hands on. As NYPD detectives Coffin...
A classic entry in Chester Himes s trailblazing Harlem Detectives series, Cotton Comes to Harlem is one of his hardest-hitting and most ente...
Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones get personally involved in a gang dispute in The Real Cool Killers, 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 black girls. But there are complications like Sonny, found standing over the body, high on hash, with a gun in his hand that fires only blanks; a gang called the Moslems; a disappearing suspect; and the fact that Coffin Ed s daughter is up to her pretty little neck...
Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones get personally involved in a gang dispute in The Real Cool Killers, one of the most provocative cas...
Love and jealousy erupt into violence in The Crazy Kill, a classic thriller inChester Himes's trailblazing Harlem Detectives series. One early morning, Reverend Short is watching from his bedroom window as the A&P across the street is robbed. As he triesto see the thief get away, the opium-addicted preacher leanstoo far and falls out--but he isunscathed, thanks to an enormousbread basket outside the bakery downstairs. As the crowd gathers to see what happened, a shocking discovery is made: There is another body in the bread basket, and Valentine Haines is dead, really dead. It's up...
Love and jealousy erupt into violence in The Crazy Kill, a classic thriller inChester Himes's trailblazing Harlem Detectives series. One ea...
Michel J. Fabre Chester B. Himes Robert E. Skinner
The late African-American novelist Chester Himes (1909-1984) is well known both in America and Europe for his moving depictions of black men destroyed by a pervasive racism and for darkly humorous stories of Harlem's underworld. His novels and stories are all the more striking because they are infused with his own varied experiences as a petty criminal, convict, writer, and expatriate. Himes was equally revealing in the many interviews he granted during his long and tumultuous career in America and France. Himes displays a remarkable candor in all his interviews. Although he never involved...
The late African-American novelist Chester Himes (1909-1984) is well known both in America and Europe for his moving depictions of black men destroyed...
Spanning 40 years and including Himes' first work, written during his imprisonment in the 1940s, this collection uncovers the internal struggles of black individuals caught between resignation and rage, probing the heart of the African-American experience with wit, indignation, and honesty.
Spanning 40 years and including Himes' first work, written during his imprisonment in the 1940s, this collection uncovers the internal struggles of bl...
This story of a man living every day in fear of his life for simply being black is as powerful today as it was when it was first published in 1947. The novel takes place in the space of four days in the life of Bob Jones, a black man who is constantly plagued by the effects of racism. Living in a society that is drenched in race consciousness has no doubt taken a toll on the way Jones behaves, thinks, and feels, especially when, at the end of his story, he is accused of a brutal crime he did not commit. "One of the most important American writers of the twentieth century ... a] quirky...
This story of a man living every day in fear of his life for simply being black is as powerful today as it was when it was first published in 1947. Th...
A classic of African-American fiction, Chester Himes's tale of a young black man who becomes a union organizer during WWII examines major problems in American life: racism, anti-Semitism, labor strife, and corruption.
A classic of African-American fiction, Chester Himes's tale of a young black man who becomes a union organizer during WWII examines major problems in ...
Chester Himes and John A Williams met in 1961, as Himes was on the cusp of transcontinental celebrity and Williams, sixteen years his junior, was just beginning his writing career. This is a collection of correspondence between these two friends, presenting nearly three decades worth of letters about their lives and loves.
Chester Himes and John A Williams met in 1961, as Himes was on the cusp of transcontinental celebrity and Williams, sixteen years his junior, was just...
