'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 ...

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

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

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

'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...

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'...

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

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

'Originally published in hardcover by The World Publishing Company in 1954. The foreword original...

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

Love and jealousy erupt into violence in The Crazy Kill, a classic thriller in Chester Himes's tr...

Fromthe best writer of mayhem yarns since Raymond Chandler(San Francisco Chronicle) comes a hard-...

From the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a brilliant, short novel about a tragi...

'Two lives spiral into a chaotic, fatal pas de deux during a weekend of sex, alcohol and violence...

'In this knockout standalone crime novel from the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives serie...

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

At once grotesquely comic and unflinchingly violent, Blind Man With a Pistol is the final entry i...

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

Chester Himes, the greatest hardboiled crime writer since Raymond Chandler, is back in print with...

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

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

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,...

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

'The greatest find in American fiction since Raymond Chandler.' The Observer (London)

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

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

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

'In this gripping installment of the maverick Harlem Detectives series, Coffin Ed Johnson and Gra...

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

'In this page-turning installment of the classic Harlem Detectives series, a woman dies at a con ...

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

'From the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series comes a masterful autobiographical nov...