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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.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A Knopf, 2024.
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Location Call No. Status
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - New Materials  M HIMES, C.    DUE 04-18-24
Description xxxiii, 665 pages ; 22 cm.
Series Everyman's library ; 417
Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) ; 417.
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.
African American detectives -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Detective and mystery fiction.
Novels.
Added Author 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.
ISBN 9781101908396 hardcover
1101908394 hardcover
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