'The toughest crime stories in print' Sunday TimesThe night's over for Ulysses Galen. It started going bad for the big Greek when a knife was drawn, then there was an axe, then he was being chased and shot at. Now Galen is lying dead in...

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 an introduction by James Ellroy....

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...

"The Harlem Cycle" von Chester Himes ist eine Sammlung von Kriminalromanen, die das Leben in Harlem während der Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts durch die Augen seiner beiden Protagonisten, Detectives Grave Digger Jones und Coffin Ed Johnson,...

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...

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...

This collection of three novels presents Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, Harlem's toughest pair of cops. Renowned for their meanness and always armed with their legendary nickel-plated colts, they patrol the streets of Harlem...

'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily Telegraph A con-man is swindling the poor folk of Harlem out of their life savings - and now all hell's broken loose. The 'Reverend'...

"If He Hollers Let Him Go" von Chester Himes ist ein Roman, der in den 1940er Jahren in Los Angeles spielt und sich mit Themen wie Rassismus, Identität und sozialer Ungerechtigkeit auseinandersetzt. Die Geschichte folgt Bob Jones, einem...

"Die Geldmacher von Harlem" ist ein Kriminalroman des amerikanischen Autors Chester Himes und Teil der Süddeutsche Zeitung Kriminalbibliothek. Der Roman spielt im lebhaften und rauen Stadtteil Harlem in New York City und folgt den...

This second omnibus edition from Himes's "Harlem Cycle" sees three more novels featuring Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones. The novels include: "The Big Gold Dream", "All Shot Up" and "The Heat's On". Chester Himes is the author...

Chester Himes was born in Jefferson City, Missouri in 1909 and grew up in Cleveland.Aged 19 he was arrested for armed robbery and sentenced to 20 to 25 years in jail. In jail he began to write short stories, some of which were published...