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Harlem Detectives eBook Series

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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

    $7.99 USD

  • 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

    $19.99 USD

  • Cotton Comes to Harlem

    by Chester Himes ...
    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

    $10.99 USD

  • 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

    $9.99 USD

  • 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

  • Blind Man with a Pistol

    by Chester Himes ...
    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

    $9.99 USD

  • 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

    $9.99 USD