Harlem Cycle Series

9 primary works • 9 total works
Featuring Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, and set in New York's 1950s and 1960s Harlem. Originally written for Gallimard's Série Noire in France.

Book 1

A Rage in Harlem
3.89
· 7762 Ratings · 813 Reviews · published 1957 · 104 editions
A Rage in Harlem is a ripping introduction to Coff…
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Book 2

The Real Cool Killers
3.86
· 2667 Ratings · 291 Reviews · published 1958 · 43 editions
When Harlemites set about each other with knives, …
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Book 3

The Crazy Kill
3.81
· 837 Ratings · 89 Reviews · published 1959 · 27 editions
From “one of the most important American writers o…
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Book 4

The Big Gold Dream
3.68
· 497 Ratings · 62 Reviews · published 1959 · 51 editions
Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, two Blac…
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Book 5

All Shot Up
3.85
· 802 Ratings · 86 Reviews · published 1960 · 1 edition

The shocking and explosive hardboiled classic. Fro…

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Book 6

The Heat's On
3.88
· 803 Ratings · 88 Reviews · published 1961 · 65 editions
Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones are in…
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Book 7

Cotton Comes to Harlem
3.80
· 2585 Ratings · 274 Reviews · published 1964 · 31 editions
Black flim-flam man Deke O'Hara is no sooner out o…
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Book 8

Blind Man with a Pistol
3.57
· 1061 Ratings · 128 Reviews · published 1969 · 39 editions
At once grotesquely comic and unflinchingly violen…
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Book 9

Plan B
3.83
· 184 Ratings · 27 Reviews · published 1983 · 17 editions
Tomsson Black, political visionary, business geniu…
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