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    The Big Gold Dream

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    In this page-turning installment of the classic Harlem Detectives series, a woman dies at a con man's religious street revival, and her elusive pile of cash vanishes

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    The Heat’s On

    Chester Himes

    From the start nothing goes right for Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones. Dead bodies are piling up faster than they can run, and Coffin Ed and Grave Digger seem…

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    All Shot Up

    Chester Himes

    A golden Cadillac big enough to cross the ocean has been seen sailing along the streets of Harlem. A hit-and-run victim’s been hit so hard she got embedded in the…

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    A Rage in Harlem

    Chester Himes

    Goldy, Jackson’s crafty twin brother, tries to help Jackson recover his life savings from the con man who cheated him.

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    Plan B

    Chester Himes

    The final, posthumous installment of the ground-breaking Harlem Detectives series, a novel of explosive, apocalyptic violence, and a startling vision of the effects of racism in America

    The roots of…

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    Cotton Comes to Harlem

    Chester Himes

    Scams, heists and murders abound in a high-energy caper

    A preacher called Deke O'Malley's been selling false hope- the promise of a glorious new life in Africa for just $1,000…

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    Cotton Comes to Harlem

    Chester Himes

    Con man Deak O'Hara is out of the state penitentiary and back on the street working the scam of a lifetime. The $87,000 he has schemed to get has been…

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    The Real Cool Killers

    Chester Himes

    Many people had reasons for killing Galen, a big Greek with too much money and too great a liking for young black girls. But there are complications–like a drug addict…

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    All Shot Up

    Chester Himes

    In this gripping installment of the maverick Harlem Detectives series, Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones investigate a series of seemingly unrelated, brutal crimes.

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    The End of a Primitive

    Chester Himes

    Two lives spiral into a chaotic, fatal pas de deux during a weekend of sex, alcohol and violence-from the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series

    Years ago, Jesse Robinson…

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    Run Man Run

    Chester Himes

    In this knockout standalone crime novel from the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a white cop's murderous outburst leads to a pulse-pounding chase to silence a witness

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    A Case of Rape

    Chester Himes

    From the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a brilliant, short novel about four black men in Paris wrongfully convicted of raping and murdering a white woman

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    The Essential Harlem Detectives

    Chester himes

    A one-volume selection of FOUR scintillating stories in the legendary Harlem Detectives series - a blistering, ground-breaking satire of Harlem's criminal underworld - by master crime-writer Chester Himes.

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    The Essential Harlem Detectives

    Chester Himes

    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…

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    If He Hollers Let Him Go

    Chester Himes

    Acclaimed expose of racism in mid-twentieth century USA, now a Serpent’s Tail Classic.

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    Conversations with Chester Himes

    Chester B Himes

    Collected interviews with the celebrated African American novelist

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    The Collected Stories of Chester Himes

    Chester Himes

    Spanning 40 years and including Himes’s first work, written during his imprisonment in the 1940s, this collection uncovers the internal struggles of black individuals caught between resignation and rage, probing…

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    All Shot Up

    Chester Himes

    A golden Cadillac big enough to cross the ocean has been seen sailing along the streets of Harlem. A hit-and-run victim’s been hit so hard she got embedded in the…

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    The Heat’s On

    Chester Himes

    From the start nothing goes right for Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones. Dead bodies are piling up faster than they can run, and Coffin Ed and Grave Digger seem…

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    Cotton Comes to Harlem

    Chester Himes

    Set in Harlem’s underside in the 1950s, a fast-paced tale of mystery and intrigue unfolds as Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones work to halt the theft of thousands…

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    All Shot Up: The Classic Crime Thriller

    Chester Himes

    The greatest find in American fiction since Raymond Chandler. -The Observer [London]

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    The Big Gold Dream

    Chester Himes

    Originally published: New York: Hearst, 1960.

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    A Rage in Harlem (Special Edition)

    Chester Himes

    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. Featuring…

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    The Crazy Kill

    Chester Himes

    Originally published by the Chatham Bookseller, New Jersey, in 1973 –T.p. verso.

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    Lonely Crusade

    Chester Himes

    A classic of African-American fiction, Chester Himes’s tale of a young black man who becomes a union organizer during WWII examines major problems in American life: racism, anti-Semitism, labor strife…

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    The Real Cool Killers

    Chester Himes

    Many people had reasons for killing Galen, a big Greek with too much money and too great a liking for young black girls. But there are complications–like a drug addict…

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    A Rage in Harlem

    Chester Himes

    Goldy, Jackson’s crafty twin brother, tries to help Jackson recover his life savings from the con man who cheated him.

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    Blind Man with a Pistol

    Chester Himes

    Investigating two separate cases during a long hot summer in New York City, Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, two Black police detectives, encounter senseless violence.

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    The Critical Response to Chester Himes

    Charles L. P. Silet

    Assesses the critical reputation of Chester Himes, an African American author.

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    The Several Lives of Chester Himes

    Edward Margolies,Michel Fabre

    Drawn from his letters, notebooks, memoirs, and his fiction, this account of Chester Hime’s varied, episodic life attempts to trace the origins of his significant literary gift. It details his…

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    Chester B. Himes: A Biography

    Lawrence P. Jackson (Johns Hopkins University)

    Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work Finalist for the PEN America/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography The definitive biography of the groundbreaking African American author who had…

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    Chester Himes: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography

    Michel Fabre,Robert E. Skinner

    An exhaustive volume clears up misconceptions about critical reception of an important African-American writer, Chester Himes.

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    Dear Chester, Dear John: Letters Between Chester Himes and John A. Williams

    Chester Himes and John A Williams met in 1961, as Himes was on the cusp of transcontinental celebrity and Williams, sixteen years his junior, was just beginning his writing career…

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    If He Hollers Let Him Go

    Chester Himes

    Robert Jones has a lot going for him: a steady job, a steady relationship and plenty of prospects, until a white woman accuses him of rape and, all of a…

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    The Noir Atlantic: Chester Himes and the Birth of the Francophone African Crime Novel

    Pim Higginson

    The Noir Atlantic follows the influence of African American author Chester Himes on francophone African crime fiction.

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    The Noir Atlantic: Chester Himes and the Birth of the Francophone African Crime Novel

    Pim Higginson

    The Noir Atlantic follows the influence of African American author Chester Himes on francophone African crime fiction.

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    L'Espoir de Vivre: Violence Et Sexualite Dans Le Roman Afro-Americain de Chester Himes a Hal Bennett

    Francoise Clary,Franocoise Clary

    -Cet ouvrage associe des recherches sur la psychologie collective et l'histoire culturelle des Etats-Unis a l'analyse du roman afro- americain de 1945 aux annees 1970. Il met en oeuvre, avec…

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    Crime Novels: Four Classic Thrillers 1964-1969 (LOA #371)

    Margaret Millar, Ed McBain, Chester Himes, Patricia Highsmith

    In the 1960s the masters of crime fiction expanded the genre's literary and psychological possibilities with audacious new themes, forms, and subject matter-here are four of their finest works

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    Paperback L.A. Book 2: A Casual Anthology: Studios, Salesmen, Shrines, Surfspots

    The casual anthology L.A. has been waiting for, rich with insight, humor, personality, history, modernity, and great writers old and new.

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