Chester Himes: 14 books

Book cover of Cotton Comes to Harlem
by Chester Himes
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011

A classic entry in Chester Himes’s trailblazing Harlem Detectives series, Cotton Comes to Harlem is one of his hardest-hitting and most entertaining thrillers.   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...
Book cover of The Big Gold Dream: The Classic Crime Thriller
by Chester Himes
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2008

“Himes is a writer with an enormous capacity to record sensuous life as it is experienced from one moment to the next.” — New York Times After arriving on the American literary scene with novels of scathing social protest like If He Hollers Let Him Go and The Lonely Crusade, Chester...
Book cover of Plan B
by Chester Himes
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 14, 2013

Un crítico francés, que afirmaba que Himes pasaría a la historia como el escritor negro más importante del siglo, consideraba la novela inconclusa Plan B un legado delirante que exploraba el odio implacable existente entre negros y blancos. Efectivamente, la lógica y la perspicacia de Himes son...
Book cover of A Rage in Harlem
by Chester Himes
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011

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...
Book cover of The Heat's On
by Chester Himes
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011

Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger 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 Grave Digger. They are disciplined for use of excessive force. Grave...
Book cover of The Real Cool Killers
by Chester Himes
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011

Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones get personally involved in a gang dispute in The Real Cool Killers, 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...
Book cover of Blind Man with a Pistol
by Chester Himes
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011

At once grotesquely comic and unflinchingly violent, Blind Man With a Pistol is the final entry in Chester Himes's trailblazing Harlem Detectives series. 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 times...
Book cover of ¡Corre, hombre, corre!
by Chester Himes
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 24, 2012

Walker, un amargado policía de Nueva York, se transforma cuando bebe en un violento salvaje. Un gélido día de invierno, al entrar con paso ebrio en una cafetería, mata a dos empleados negros sólo "porque estaban allí", y persigue a un tercer testigo de los asesinatos en una de las...
Book cover of The Crazy Kill
by Chester Himes
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011

The Crazy Kill Outside the apartment where a wake is going on, the manager of the A&P across the street is robbed. Reverend Short, a storefront preacher addicted to opium and brandy, is watching from a bedroom window in the flat. He leans too far and falls out; a bread basket, sitting outside...
Book cover of All Shot Up: The Classic Crime Thriller
by Chester Himes
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007

"The greatest find in American fiction since Raymond Chandler."—The Observer [London] 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.
Book cover of El gran sueño de oro
by Chester Himes
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 11, 2010

Los grandes y marrones ojos de vaca de Alberta Wright miraban con adoración el rostro negro de Sweet Prophet. Parecía que el predicador sólo se estaba dirigiendo a ella, aunque era una más entre los seiscientos conversos de túnica blanca arrodillados en el ardiente asfalto bajo el sol del mediodía....
Book cover of El extraño asesinato
by Chester Himes
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 5, 2010

El encargado de una tienda de alimentación A&P es víctima de un robo enfrente de un apartamento donde se está celebrando un velatorio. El reverendo Short, un pastor evangélico adicto al brandy con opio, lo observa todo desde la ventana de uno de los dormitorios. Se inclina demasiado y cae...
Book cover of La banda de los Musulmanes
by Chester Himes
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 25, 2010

Un hombre blanco en un club de negros en Harlem es atacado, perseguido y asesinado en la calle. Cuando Grave Digger Jones y Coffin Ed Johnson llegan a la escena del crimen, la resolución del caso parece sencilla, pero todo se va complicando: Coffin Ed mata a un miembro de la banda de los Musulmanes,...
Book cover of Por amor a Imabelle
by Chester Himes
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 21, 2014

Por el amor de la sensual y pícara Imabelle, Jackson pierde los ahorros de toda su vida al dárselos a un confidente de la Policía que "sabe" convertir billetes de diez dólares en billetes de cien; luego robará a su jefe para perder posteriormente el dinero en una sala de juego. Por...
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