Cover art for The Essential Harlem Detectives
Published
Everyman, January 2024
ISBN
9781841594170
Format
Hardcover, 712 pages
Dimensions
21cm × 13.5cm × 3.7cm

The Essential Harlem Detectives

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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.

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, wise-cracking sleuths are thrown into a brutal, murderous world peopled with conniving con men, gut-toting gangsters and opium-smoking preachers. Himes's vision of Harlem's 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.

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