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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
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3.89 · 7440 Ratings · 756 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
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    3.86     · 2552 Ratings · 269 Reviews · published 1958 · 43 editions
    When Harlemites set about each other with knives, …

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    Book 3

    The Crazy Kill
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    3.83     · 781 Ratings · 78 Reviews · published 1959 · 53 editions
    From “one of the most important American writers o…

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    Book 4

    The Big Gold Dream
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    3.69     · 474 Ratings · 61 Reviews · published 1959 · 51 editions
    Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, two Blac…

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    Book 5

    All Shot Up
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    3.86     · 771 Ratings · 80 Reviews · published 1960 · 56 editions

    The shocking and explosive hardboiled classic. Fro…

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    Book 6

    The Heat's On
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    3.88     · 776 Ratings · 80 Reviews · published 1961 · 65 editions
    Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones are in…

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    Book 7

    Cotton Comes to Harlem
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    3.81     · 2456 Ratings · 252 Reviews · published 1964 · 55 editions
    Black flim-flam man Deke O'Hara is no sooner out o…

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    Book 8

    Blind Man with a Pistol
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    3.58     · 1019 Ratings · 119 Reviews · published 1969 · 39 editions
    At once grotesquely comic and unflinchingly violen…

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    Book 9

    Plan B
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    3.83     · 183 Ratings · 27 Reviews · published 1983 · 16 editions
    Tomsson Black, political visionary, business geniu…

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