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A Rage in Harlem - (Harlem Detectives) by Chester Himes (Paperback)

A Rage in Harlem - (Harlem Detectives) by  Chester Himes (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Originally published as: For love of Imabelle. c1957.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><i>A Rage in Harlem</i> is a ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling New York City's roughest streets in Chester Himes's groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. <p/>For love of fine, wily Imabelle, hapless Jackson surrenders his life savings to a con man who knows the secret of turning ten-dollar bills into hundreds--and then he steals from his boss, only to lose the stolen money at a craps table. Luckily for him, he can turn to his savvy twin brother, Goldy, who earns a living--disguised as a Sister of Mercy--by selling tickets to Heaven in Harlem. With Goldy on his side, Jackson is ready for payback.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Himes undertook to do for Harlem what Raymond Chandler did for Los Angeles."<br> --<i>Newsweek </i> <p/>"One of the most important American writers of the 20th century. . . . A quirky American genius."<br> --Walter Mosley <p/>"Himes wrote spectacularly successful entertainments, filled with gems of descriptive writing, plots that barely sidestep chaos, characters surreal, grotesque, comic, hip, Harlem recollected as a place that can make you laugh, cry, shudder."<br> --John Edgar Wideman <p/>"Himes's Harlem saga vies with the novels of David Goodis and Jim Thompson as the inescapable achievement of postwar American crime fiction."<br> --<i>The New York Times</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Chester Himes was born in Missouri in 1909. He began writing while serving a prison sentence for a jewel theft and published just short of twenty novels before his death in 1984. Among his best-known thrillers are <i>Blind Man with a Pistol</i>, <i>Cotton Comes to Harlem</i>, <i> The Crazy Kill</i>, <i>A Rage in Harlem</i>, <i>The Real Cool Killers</i>, and <i>The Heat's On</i>, all available from Vintage. <p/></p>

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