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If He Hollers Let Him Go
Amazon.com Review: In the decades just prior to the eruption of the American civil rights movement in the late '50s, Chester Himes was one of the most significant African American authors--although today he is less well known than several of his [... more]
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Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s: The Killer ...
Amazon.com Review: The best American crime novels deserve their place in the pantheon of American literature, but they hold special interest for cinema enthusiasts, who can both compare them to the movies they became and can roll imaginary films of the [... more]
$35.00
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The End of a Primitive (Old School Books)
Amazon.com Review: Chester Himes aficionados who've followed detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones from one grisly Harlem crime scene to the next will find a meaner, harsher reality in The End of a Primitive. In this early work, Himes [... more]
$12.00
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The Heat's On
aka : Come Back Charleston Blue: There are a few things you can depend on in Chester Himes's great police procedurals featuring Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones : colorful characters, distinctive dialect, a fierce racial sensibility, and plenty [... more]
$15.00
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Blind Man with a Pistol
Dirty Business: This a book by a Black author about Harlem in the 60's. It is not a story, but a series of incidents leading the protagonist, one of a team of Black cops, to conclude "It don't make no sense." It portrays every negative aspect [... more]
$12.95
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Cotton Comes to Harlem
Read "rage" First: This novel has some of the same characters as Himes' Rage in Harlem. This is not a sequel and it is not imperitve that you read "Rage" first, but I think that you will like this book more if you have read about [... more]
$12.95
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A Rage in Harlem
FURIOUS STYLES: CHESTER HIMES MASTERS BLACK CRIME FICTION: Whether or not you're a fan of detective mystery/caper/police procedural fiction--writer Elmore Leonard is considered a living master--there's a treasure of good reading and fantastic [... more]
$11.95
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The Real Cool Killers
Amazon.com Review: To detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, it looked like an open and shut case. After all, Sonny Pickens was still standing over the body of Ulysses Galen, smoking gun hanging from his hand. Only one problem: Sonny's gun [... more]
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Pinktoes: A Novel (Banner Books)
Thought Provoking Sex Farce: I really enjoyed this book. It really made me think. It was also so darned sexy. It mostly dealt with race and sex...Primarily of the interracial variety. I will never forget Mamie Mason the Hostesss With The Mostest and her [... more]
$40.00
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Pinktoes
Thought Provoking Sex Farce: I really enjoyed this book. It really made me think. It was also so darned sexy. It mostly dealt with race and sex...Primarily of the interracial variety. I will never forget Mamie Mason the Hostesss With The Mostest and her [... more]
$20.00
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The Harlem Cycle: A Rage in Harlem; The Real Cool ...
underappreciated: This is a typically entertaining entry in Himes' Coffin Ed Johnson/Grave Digger Jones series. The two Harlem police detectives investigate a stabbing at a wake and the usual cast of colorful characters--gamblers, pool sharks, holy- [... more]
$16.95
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The Quality of Hurt: The Early Years, the Autobiography ...
The Calculus of Fear and Loathing: I remember my father telling me how he kept "colored" workers out of the factory in Cleveland where he worked: He gave them a very low workbench so that they would have to bend down to operate the machinery [... more]
$13.95
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