Description |
xxxiii, 665 pages ; 22 cm. |
Series |
Everyman's library ; 417 |
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Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) ; 417.
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Bibliography |
Incluces bibliographical references (pages xi-xiii). |
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."-- from inside dust jacket. |
Subject |
African American police -- Fiction.
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African American detectives -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
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Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery fiction.
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Novels.
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Added Author |
Cosby, S. A., author of introduction.
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Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984.
For love of Imabelle.
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Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984.
Real cool killers.
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Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984.
Jealous man can't win.
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Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984.
Cotton comes to Harlem.
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ISBN |
9781101908396 hardcover |
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1101908394 hardcover |
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