Harlem Detectives Series (#1-8) by Chester Himes
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Overview: CHESTER HIMES was born in Missouri in 1909. He began writing while serving a prison sentence for a jewel theft and published just short of twenty novels before his death in 1984. Among his best-known thrillers are Blind Man With a Pistol, Cotton Comes to Harlem, The Crazy Kill, The Real Cool Killers, and The Heat’s On, all available from Vintage.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Detectives #1)
A Rage in Harlem is a ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling New York City’s roughest streets in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series.
For love of fine, wily Imabelle, hapless Jackson surrenders his life savings to a con man who knows the secret of turning ten-dollar bills into hundreds—and then he steals from his boss, only to lose the stolen money at a craps table. Luckily for him, he can turn to his savvy twin brother, Goldy, who earns a living—disguised as a Sister of Mercy—by selling tickets to Heaven in Harlem. With Goldy on his side, Jackson is ready for payback.
The Crazy Kill: (Harlem Detectives #2)
Love and jealousy erupt into violence in The Crazy Kill, a classic thriller in Chester 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 tries to see the thief get away, the opium-addicted preacher leans too far and falls out–but he is unscathed, thanks to an enormous bread 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 to Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson to find out who murdered Val.
The Real Cool Killers: (Harlem Detectives #3)
When Harlemites set about each other with knives, it’s an everyday kind of happening. But when a white man is shot dead in a Harlem street one steamy evening it means trouble, big trouble. Plenty of people had motives for killing Galen, a big Greek with too much money and too great a liking for young black girls. But there are complications – like Sonny, high on hash, found standing over the body with a gun in his hand that fires only blanks, a street gang called the Moslems, a disappearing suspect, and the fact that Coffin Ed’s own daughter is up to her pretty neck in the whole explosive situation.
All Shot Up: (Harlem Detectives #4)
The shocking and explosive hardboiled classic. From murderers to prostitutes, corrupt politicians and racist white detectives, Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones, Harlem’s toughest detective duo, must carry the day against an absurdist world of racism and class warfare.
The Big Gold Dream: (Harlem Detectives #5)
An explosive and shocking hardboiled classic that explores the shadowy underbelly of New York as a urban civil war erupts on the side streets of Harlem, pitting murderers and prostitutes against corrupt politicians and racist white detectives. Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson attempt to maintain some kind of order in the neighborhood they have sworn to protect and in a world gone mad around them.
The Heat’s On: (Harlem Detectives #6)
Detectives Coffin Ed and Gravedigger Jones are in the hot seat in one of the most chaotic, brutally funny novels in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. From the start, nothing goes right for Coffin Ed and Gravedigger. They are disciplined for use of excessive force. Gravedigger is shot and his death announced in a hoax radio bulletin. Bodies pile up faster than Coffin Ed and Gravedigger can run. Yet, try as they might, they always seem to be one hot step behind the cause of all the mayhem — three million dollars’ worth of heroin and a giant albino called Pinky.
Cotton Comes to Harlem: (Harlem Detectives #7)
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 take is hijacked by white gunmen and hidden in a bale of cotton that suddenly everyone wants to get his hands on. As NYPD detectives, Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones, piece together the complexity of the scheme, we are treated to Himes’s brand of hard-boiled crime fiction at its very best.
Blind Man With A Pistol: (Harlem Detectives #8)
New York is sweltering in the summer heat, and Harlem is close to the boiling point. To Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger 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 Gravedigger find themselves pursuing two completely different cases through a maze of knifings, beatings, and riots that threaten to tear Harlem apart.
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