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 Chester Himes. With an introduction by New York Times bestselling author S.A. Cosby.
“A Rage in Harlem” introduces detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson in a searing escapade. In “The Real Cool Killers”, the duo investigates a shooting and discovers an unsettling personal connection. In “The Crazy Kill”, a man is found in a breadbasket, stabbed to death, leaving Himes's detectives to find out who among the many suspects did it. And in “Cotton Comes to Harlem”, the brazen robbery of a notorious con man running a back-to-Africa scam sets off a hunt for a bale of Southern cotton. These masterful novels exhibit Himes's evocative, baroque descriptions of Black life in Harlem and his famously blistering social commentary.
