The Essential Harlem Detectives

Name: The Essential Harlem Detectives
Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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By Chester Himes

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"Here in one volume is an exceptional selection from Chester Himes's acclaimed Harlem Detectives series. Winner of France's prestigious Grand Prix de Littâerature Policiáere 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."--

Product details

Languages:: Original: English
Number of Pages:: 712
Publisher:: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Date:: 2024-02-06
ISBN / EAN:: 9781101908396
Weight:: 734 g
Dimensions:: 127/208/41 cm
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]

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