For Love of Imabelle
| Author | : Chester B. Himes |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 1973 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Goldy, Jackson's crafty twin brother, tries to help Jackson recover his life savings from the con man who cheated him.
For Love Of Imabelle
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A Rage in Harlem
| Author | : Chester B. Himes |
| Publisher | : Penguin Classics |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2024-06-06 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780241685068 |
Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds. But when the scheme somehow fails, Jackson is left broke, wanted by the police and desperately racing to get back both his money and his loving Imabelle. The first of Chester Himes's novels featuring the hardboiled Harlem detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, A Rage in Harlem has swagger, brutal humour, lurid violence, a hearse loaded with gold and a conman dressed as a Sister of Mercy.
The Crazy Kill
| Author | : Chester Himes |
| Publisher | : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
| Total Pages | : 156 |
| Release | : 2011-07-27 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307803236 |
From “one of the most important American writers of the 20th century” (Walter Mosley) comes a classic thriller in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives series, in which love and jealousy erupt into violence. One early morning, Reverend Short is watching from his bedroom window as the A&P across the street is robbed. As he tries to see the thief get away, the opium-addicted preacher leans too far and falls out--but he is unscathed, thanks to an enormous bread basket outside the bakery downstairs. As the crowd gathers to see what happened, a shocking discovery is made: There is another body in the bread basket, and Valentine Haines is dead, really dead. It's up to Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson to find out who murdered Val.
A Rage in Harlem
| Author | : Chester Himes |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2011-05-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0141967714 |
'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday Times Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds. But when the scheme somehow fails, Jackson is left broke, wanted by the police and desperately racing to get back both his money and his loving Imabelle. The first of Chester Himes's novels featuring the hardboiled Harlem detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, A Rage in Harlem has swagger, brutal humour, lurid violence, a hearse loaded with gold and a conman dressed as a Sister of Mercy. With an Introduction by Luc Sante
For Love of Imabelle
| Author | : Chester B. Himes |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 1965 |
| Genre | : African American police |
| ISBN | : |
The Street Was Mine
| Author | : M. Abbott |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 247 |
| Release | : 2002-12-19 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1403970017 |
This book considers a recurrent figure in American literature: the solitary white man moving through urban space. The descendent of Nineteenth-century frontier and western heroes, the figure re-emerges in 1930-50s America as the 'tough guy'. The Street Was Mine looks to the tough guy in the works of hardboiled novelists Raymond Chandler ( The Big Sleep ) and James M. Cain ( Double Indemnity ) and their popular film noir adaptations. Focusing on the way he negotiates racial and gender 'otherness', this study argues that the tough guy embodies the promise of an impervious white masculinity amidst the turmoil of the Depression through the beginnings of the Cold War, closing with an analysis of Chester Himes, whose Harlem crime novels ( For Love of Imabelle ) unleash a ferocious revisionary critique of the tough guy tradition.
Cotton Comes to Harlem
| Author | : Chester Himes |
| Publisher | : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
| Total Pages | : 207 |
| Release | : 2011-08-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307803244 |
From “the best writer of mayhem yarns since Raymond Chandler” (San Francisco Chronicle) comes a hard-hitting, entertaining entry in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives series about two NYPD detectives who must piece together the clues of the scam of a lifetime. Flim-flam man Deke O’Hara is no sooner out of Atlanta’s state penitentiary than he’s back on the streets working a big scam. As sponsor of the Back-to-Africa movement, he’s counting on a big Harlem rally to produce a massive collection—for his own private charity. But the take is hijacked by white gunmen and hidden in a bale of cotton that suddenly everyone wants to get his hands on. As NYPD detectives “Coffin Ed” Johnson and “Grave Digger” Jones face the complexity of the scheme, we are treated to Himes’s brand of hard-boiled crime fiction at its very best.
For Love of Imabelle
| Author | : Brenda Jackson |
| Publisher | : Signet |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 1974-10-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780451060969 |
