'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday TimesJackson's woman ...

»Chester Himes ist eine Schlüsselfigur in der Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts, ein scharfsinniger ...

A classic thriller from the Harlem Detective series, where love, jealousy and many-peopled mayhem...

The searing debut novel by Chester Himes, 'written with youthful panache and a bellyful of anger'...

The final novel in the trailblazing Harlem Detective series, set in a New York City at boiling po...

Fast-paced and hard-boiled, this Harlem Detectives novel follows a pile of stolen money - or it w...

'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Da...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksBest known for his hardboiled Harlem Detec...

'A stark depiction of the 'alligator pond' of prison life ... Rage tempered with compassion ... [...

The book that Walter Kirn said was likeHieronymus Bosch meets Miles Davis' (The New York Times). ...

'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday TimesDetectives Coffi...

A classic of African-American fiction, Chester Himes's tale of a young black man who becomes a un...

'The toughest crime stories in print'Sunday TimesThe night's over for Ulysses Galen. It started g...

'For love of fine, wily Imabelle, hapless Jackson surrenders his life savings to a con man who ko...

The final, posthumous installment of the ground-breaking Harlem Detectives series: a novel of exp...

This story of a man living every day in fear of his life for simply being black is as powerful to...

Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones are in the hot seat in one of the most chaotic, bruta...

'Here in one volume is an exceptional selection from Chester Himes's acclaimed Harlem Detectives ...

A rip-roaring introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling New York City ...

Spanning 40 years and including Himes's first work, written during his imprisonment in the 1940s,...

'A bawdy, brazen rollercoaster of a novel . . . the wildest' The New York TimesA preacher called ...

'Outrageous, shocking, wonderful' The New York TimesA golden Cadillac big enough to cross the oce...

From the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a powerful autobiographical novel abou...

A friend and contemporary of Richard Wright and James Baldwin - and every bit their equal - Chest...

In the 1960s a number of gifted writers--some at the peak of their careers, others newcomers--rei...

From the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a masterful autobiographical novel abo...