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Chester (Bomar) Himes began his writing career while serving in the Ohio State Penitentiary for armed robbery from 1929 - 1936. His account of the horrific 1930 Penitentiary fire that killed over three hundred men appeared in Esquire in 1932 and from this Himes was able to get other work published. From his first novel, If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945), Himes dealt with the social and psychological repercussions of being black in a white-dominated society. Beginning in 1953, Himes moved to Europe, where he lived as an expatriate in France and Spain. There, he met and was strongly influenced by Richard Wright. It was in France that he began his best-known series of crime novels---including Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965) and Run Man Run (1966)---featuring two Harlem policemen Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson. As with Himes's earlier work, the series is characterized by violence and grisly, sardonic humor. |
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-394-75998-2 (0-394-75998-2) | December 1989 | $ 12.95
New York is sweltering in the summer heat, and Harlem is dose to the boiling point. To Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, at times it seems as if the whole world has gone mad. Trying, as always, to keep some kind of peace-their legendary nickel-plated Colts very much in... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-679-72572-5 (0-679-72572-5) | December 1989 | $ 15.00
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Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-679-72040-9 (0-679-72040-5) | December 1989 | $ 13.00
For the love of fine and wily Imabelle, hapless Jackson loses his life savings to a con man who knows the secret of turning ten-dollar bills into hundreds and steals from his boss, only to lose the stolen money at a crap table. Luckily for him, Jackson has a savvy twin... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-394-75999-9 (0-394-75999-0) | November 1988 | $ 13.00
Black flim-flam man Deke O'Hara is no sooner out of Atlanta's state penitentiary than he's back on the streets working the scam of a lifetime. As sponsor of the Back-to-Africa movement he's counting on the big Harlem rally to produce a big collection--for his own private charity. But the take ($87,000)... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-394-75997-5 (0-394-75997-4) | November 1988 | $ 15.00
From the start, nothing goes fright for Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones. They are disciplined for use of excessive force. Grave Digger is shot and his death announced in a hoax radio bulletin. Bodies pile up faster than Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones can run. Yet, try as they... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-679-72039-3 (0-679-72039-1) | November 1988 | $ 12.00
Many people had reasons for killing Galen, a big Greek with too much money and too great a liking for young black girls. But there are complications--like a drug addict, a disappearing suspect, and the fact that Coffin Ed's daughter is up to her neck in the whole explosive business. Read More