The essential Harlem detectives : a rage in Harlem : the real cool killers : the crazy kill : Cotton comes to Harlem
(Book)

This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf.

A rage in Harlem originally published in the USA in 1957 as For Love of Imabelle. The Real Cook Killers originally publishing in France as Il pleut des coups durs. The crazy kill originally published in France as Couché dans le pain. Cotton comes to Harlem first published in France as Retour en Afrique.

"A one-volume selection of four novels in a legendary detective series—blistering, groundbreaking capers set in 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 is 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 Grave Digger Jones. Himes authored nine novels in the Harlem Detectives series, and in these four popular, accomplished installments, his cold, wisecracking sleuths are thrown into a brutal, murderous world, full of conniving con men, gun-toting gangsters, and opium-smoking preachers. Himes's vision of Harlem's criminal underground is both riotous entertainment, enriched by his deftly plotted mysteries and scintillating dialogue, and a penetrating look into the fraught tensions of race in postwar America."--,Provided by publisher.