Cotton Comes to Harlem
Cotton Comes to Harlem

Author: Chester Himes

Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Published: 2011-08-03

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 0307803244

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From “the best writer of mayhem yarns since Raymond Chandler” (San Francisco Chronicle) comes a hard-hitting, entertaining entry in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives series about two NYPD detectives who must piece together the clues of the scam of a lifetime. Flim-flam man Deke O’Hara is no sooner out of Atlanta’s state penitentiary than he’s back on the streets working a big scam. As sponsor of the Back-to-Africa movement, he’s counting on a big Harlem rally to produce a massive collection—for his own private charity. But the take is hijacked by white gunmen and hidden in a bale of cotton that suddenly everyone wants to get his hands on. As NYPD detectives “Coffin Ed” Johnson and “Grave Digger” Jones face the complexity of the scheme, we are treated to Himes’s brand of hard-boiled crime fiction at its very best.

Cotton Comes to Harlem
Cotton Comes to Harlem

Author: Chester Himes

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2011-05-05

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 0141196467

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'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' Deke O'Malley has just made $87,000 by duping his followers, only for white gunmen to hijack the rally and escape with the cash hidden inside a bale of cotton. Now ace detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson must get the good people of Harlem their money back by any means necessary, in a raucous, breakneck adventure involving double-crosses, exotic dancers, a racist colonel and a whole pile of bodies...

The Heat's On
The Heat's On

Author: Chester Himes

Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Published: 2011-08-31

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 0307803252

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Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones are in the hot seat in one of the most chaotic, brutally funny novels in the groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. • "A rattlingly good action melodrama spiced with a maximum of humor and a minimum of self-consciousness." —The New York Times From the start, nothing goes right for Coffin Ed and Grave Digger. They are disciplined for use of excessive force. Grave Digger is shot and his death announced in a hoax radio bulletin. Bodies pile up faster than Coffin Ed and Grave Digger can run. Yet, try as they might, they always seem to be one hot step behind the cause of all the mayhem—three million dollars’ worth of heroin and a giant albino called Pinky.

Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s
Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s

Author: Novotny Lawrence

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-12-12

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1135900361

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This book examines a number of blaxploitation films – including Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970), Blacula (1972), and The Mack (1973) – and illustrates the manner in which 'blaxploitation' came to be understood as a separate genre.

Beyond Blaxploitation
Beyond Blaxploitation

Author: Novotny Lawrence

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 2016-11-28

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0814340776

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Beyond Blaxploitation is a much-needed pedagogical tool, informing film scholars, critics, and fans alike, about blaxploitation's richness and complexity.

The Crazy Kill
The Crazy Kill

Author: Chester Himes

Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Published: 2011-07-27

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 0307803236

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From “one of the most important American writers of the 20th century” (Walter Mosley) comes a classic thriller in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives series, in which love and jealousy erupt into violence. One early morning, Reverend Short is watching from his bedroom window as the A&P across the street is robbed. As he tries to see the thief get away, the opium-addicted preacher leans too far and falls out--but he is unscathed, thanks to an enormous bread basket outside the bakery downstairs. As the crowd gathers to see what happened, a shocking discovery is made: There is another body in the bread basket, and Valentine Haines is dead, really dead. It's up to Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson to find out who murdered Val.

The Real Cool Killers
The Real Cool Killers

Author: Chester Himes

Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Published: 2011-07-27

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 0307803279

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The book that Walter Kirn said was like “Hieronymus Bosch meets Miles Davis" (The New York Times). • Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones get personally involved in a gang dispute in one of the most provocative cases in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. Many people had reasons for killing Ulysses Galen, a big Greek with too much money and too great a liking for young black girls. But there are complications—like Sonny, found standing over the body, high on hash, with a gun in his hand that fires only blanks; a gang called the Moslems; a disappearing suspect; and the fact that Coffin Ed’s daughter is up to her pretty little neck in the whole explosive business.

Yesterday Will Make You Cry
Yesterday Will Make You Cry

Author: Chester B. Himes

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780393318296

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"There could not be a fitter time or place for the publication of this great prison novel than today's United States." --H. Bruce Franklin, The Nation

A Rage in Harlem
A Rage in Harlem

Author: Chester B. Himes

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Published: 2024-06-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780241685068

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Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds. But when the scheme somehow fails, Jackson is left broke, wanted by the police and desperately racing to get back both his money and his loving Imabelle. The first of Chester Himes's novels featuring the hardboiled Harlem detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, A Rage in Harlem has swagger, brutal humour, lurid violence, a hearse loaded with gold and a conman dressed as a Sister of Mercy.