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The Essential Harlem Detectives
A Rage in Harlem, The Real Cool Killers, The Crazy Kill, Cotton Comes to Harlem
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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.
“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.