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The Collected Stories of Chester Himes by Chester Himes 9781560252689
Booksplease Price: £20.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560252689Author Chester HimesFormat PaperbackPage Count 446Imprint -
Lonely Crusade by Chester Himes
Booksplease Price: £18.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560251422Author Chester HimesFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint -
A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday TimesJackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds... -
The Heat's On Chester Himes 9780241521106
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday TimesDetectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones have lost two criminals. Pinky ran off - but it shouldn't be hard to track... -
The Crazy Kill Chester Himes 9780241692639
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A classic thriller from the Harlem Detective series, where love, jealousy and many-peopled mayhem aboundBig Joe Pullen is dead and his wake is getting boozy. When the opium-addicted Reverend Short... -
Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester Himes
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'A bawdy, brazen rollercoaster of a novel . . . the wildest' The New York TimesA preacher called Deke O'Malley's been selling false hope: the promise of a glorious new life in Africa for just $1,000... -
The Real Cool Killers by Chester Himes
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'The toughest crime stories in print' Sunday TimesThe night's over for Ulysses Galen. It started going bad for the big Greek when a knife was drawn, then there was an axe, then he was being chased... -
The Crazy Kill by Chester Himes 9780679725725
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £13.52From "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... -
All Shot Up by Chester Himes
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Outrageous, shocking, wonderful' The New York TimesA golden Cadillac big enough to cross the ocean has been seen sailing along the streets of Harlem. A hit-and-run victim's been hit so hard she got... -
The Big Gold Dream by Chester Himes
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £14.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933648842Author Chester HimesFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint -
A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes 9780679720409
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £10.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679720409Author Chester HimesFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
Blindman with a Pistol by Chester Himes 9780394759982
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394759982Author Chester HimesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint -
The Essential Harlem Detectives by Chester himes 9781841594170
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05A friend and contemporary of Richard Wright and James Baldwin - and every bit their equal - Chester Himes was the acclaimed author of literary novels, stories and essays, as well as the classic crime... -
The Big Gold Dream Chester Himes 9780241692622
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Fast-paced and hard-boiled, this Harlem Detectives novel follows a pile of stolen money - or it would if anyone could find it... Alberta Wright drops dead on the street during a sermon by the... -
Conversations with Chester Himes by Michel Fabre 9780878058198
Booksplease Price: £27.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878058198Author Michel FabreFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint < -
The Third Generation: A Novel by Chester Himes 9780593686683
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £13.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593686683Author Chester HimesFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint -
Blind Man with a Pistol Chester Himes 9780241692615
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The final novel in the trailblazing Harlem Detective series, set in a New York City at boiling pointBawdy and tough-talking, wickedly funny and wantonly sensual, Blind Man With a Pistol is a surreal... -
Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester Himes 9780241639221
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphA con-man is swindling the poor folk of Harlem out of their life savings - and now all... -
Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester Himes 9780394759999
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £10.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394759999Author Chester HimesFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
Yesterday Will Make You Cry Chester Himes 9780241692646
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Thrill-seeking white teenager Jimmy Monroe is serving a twenty-year sentence for robbery. The penitentiary is a place where terror and chaos reign, where corrupt guards inflict casual and insidious... -
The Several Lives of Chester Himes by Edward Margolies 9781934110966
Booksplease Price: £23.03A fascinating blend of hatred and tenderness, of hard-boiled realism and generous idealism colors the writings of Chester Himes. How did this gifted son of the respectable southern black family... -
If He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester Himes 9781560254454
Booksplease Price: £14.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560254454Author Chester HimesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint -
If He Hollers, Let Him Go Chester Himes 9780241692424
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The searing debut novel by Chester Himes, 'written with youthful panache and a bellyful of anger' (Observer)Robert 'Bob' Jones - crew leader, shipyard worker, educated, employed - is finding life... -
All God's Chillun Got Pride by Chester Himes 9780241752104
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.74Best known for his hardboiled Harlem Detective series, Chester Himes was also a superb literary writer, beginning his creative life by writing short stories in the 1930s while serving jail time for... -
Chester Himes: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography by Michel Fabre 9780313283963
Booksplease Price: £56.13A contemporary of Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison, Chester Himes wrote with perhaps more angry fire than his celebrated colleagues about black protagonists doomed by white racisim... -
The Critical Response to Chester Himes by Charles L. P. Silet 9780313299414
Booksplease Price: £66.89The work of Chester Himes is now undergoing a critical and popular reevaluation as it gradually comes back into print after years of neglect. His protest novels from the 1940s and early 1950s, his... -
All Shot Up: The Classic Crime Thriller by Chester Himes 9781933648729
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £17.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933648729Author Chester HimesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint -
Dear Chester, Dear John: Letters Between Chester Himes and John A. Williams by 9780814333556
Booksplease Price: £26.25This is a revealing collection of correspondence between Chester Himes and John A. Williams, two prominent twentieth-century African American novelists.Chester Himes and John A. Williams met in 1961,... -
The Noir Atlantic: Chester Himes and the Birth of the Francophone African Crime Novel by Pim Higginson 9781846318696
Booksplease Price: £31.16The Noir Atlantic follows the influence of African American author Chester Himes on Francophone African crime fiction. In 1953, Himes emigrated to Paris; he struggled there, just as he had in the... -
The Essential Harlem Detectives: A Rage in Harlem, The Real Cool Killers, The Crazy Kill, Cotton Comes To Harlem by Chester Himes 9781101908396
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £22.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101908396Author Chester HimesFormat HardbackPage Count 712Imprint -
In Defence of Barbarism: Non-Whites Against the Empire Louisa Yousfi 9781804294420
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.61Is social integration all it's cracked up to be? Not in the defiant view of first-time French author Louisa Yousfi, who herself has North African roots. Taking its inspiration from the leading... -
What's So Funny? Donald E. Westlake 9781847243850
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Donald Westlake turns the world of crime and criminals upside down and has the last laugh in WHAT'S SO FUNNY?, his latest comic caper novel. His perennially depressed master thief, John Dortmunder,... -
Chester B. Himes: A Biography by Lawrence P. Jackson 9780393063899
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.01Chester B. Himes has been called "one of the towering figures of the black literary tradition" (Henry Louis Gates Jr.), "the best writer of mayhem yarns since Raymond Chandler" (San Francisco... -
Drowned Hopes: A Dortmunder Mystery Donald E. Westlake 9781847245205
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Dortmunder's past comes back to haunt him when he returns home after an unsuccessful burglary and finds his old cellmate sitting in his living room. He needs Dortmunder's help in retrieving $700,000... -
Get Real: A Dortmunder Novel Donald E. Westlake 9781849161077
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In Westlake's brilliantly bizarre and always amusing world, it's usually the thief who comes out on top. But times could be changing. When a TV producer convinces our roguish crook Dortmunder and his... -
The Real Cool Killers by Chester B Himes 9780679720393
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679720393Author Chester HimesFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
A Freedom Bought with Blood: African American War Literature from the Civil War to World War II by Jennifer C. James 9780807858073
Booksplease Price: £40.58In the first comprehensive study of African American war literature, Jennifer James analyzes fiction, poetry, autobiography, and histories about the major wars waged before the desegregation of the U... -
In the Heat of the Night by John Ball
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A 50th anniversary edition of the classic crime novel that inspired the Oscar-winning film starring Sidney Poitier.'They call me Mr Tibbs!'A small southern town in the 1960s. A musician found dead on... -
The Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb 9780241640425
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphTwo young children hold the key to a secret stash of money - and a relentless psychopath... -
Left of the Color Line: Race, Radicalism, and Twentieth-Century Literature of the United States by James Smethurst 9780807854778
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.98This collection of fifteen new essays explores the impact of the organized Left and Leftist theory on American literature and culture from the 1920s to the present. In particular, the contributors...