A friend and contemporary of Richard Wright and James Baldwin and every bit their equal Chester Himes was the acclaimed author of literary novels, stories and essays, as well as the classic crime fiction series for which he is best known, featuring detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones.Himes wrote nine novels in the Harlem Detectives series, and in these four popular, accomplished instalments, his cold, wisecracking sleuths are thrown into a brutal, murderous world peopled with conniving con men, guttoting gangsters and opiumsmoking preachers. Himess vision of Harlems criminal underground, enriched by deft plotting and scintillating dialogue, is both riotous entertainment and penetrating enquiry into the fraught tensions of race in postwar America.

Binding: Hardback;712 pages; Publisher: Everyman; Classification: FFC; Weight: 852 g; Dimensions: 137 x 265 x 39

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