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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.
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Book 1
A Rage in Harlem
by
Chester Himes
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published 1957
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10 editions
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Book 2
The Real Cool Killers
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published 1958
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When Harlemites set about each other with knives, …
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Book 3
The Crazy Kill
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published 1959
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From “one of the most important American writers o…
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Book 4
The Big Gold Dream
by
Chester Himes
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published 1959
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51 editions
Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, two Blac…
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Book 5
All Shot Up
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Chester Himes
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published 1960
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The shocking and explosive hardboiled classic. Fro…
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Book 6
The Heat's On
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Chester Himes
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published 1961
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Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones are in…
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Book 7
Cotton Comes to Harlem
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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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published 1969
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At once grotesquely comic and unflinchingly violen…
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Book 9
Plan B
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published 1983
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Tomsson Black, political visionary, business geniu…
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