Cotton Comes to Harlem

Cotton Comes to Harlem
Title Cotton Comes to Harlem PDF eBook
Author Chester Himes
Publisher Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pages 207
Release 2011-08-03
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0307803244

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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.

The Heat's On

The Heat's On
Title The Heat's On PDF eBook
Author Chester Himes
Publisher Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pages 196
Release 2011-08-31
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0307803252

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Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones are in the hot seat in one of the most chaotic, brutally funny novels in the groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. • "A rattlingly good action melodrama spiced with a maximum of humor and a minimum of self-consciousness." —The New York Times From the start, nothing goes right for Coffin Ed and Grave Digger. 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 can run. Yet, try as they might, they always seem to be one hot step behind the cause of all the mayhem—three million dollars’ worth of heroin and a giant albino called Pinky.

Beyond Blaxploitation

Beyond Blaxploitation
Title Beyond Blaxploitation PDF eBook
Author Novotny Lawrence
Publisher Wayne State University Press
Pages 266
Release 2016-11-28
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0814340776

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Beyond Blaxploitation is a much-needed pedagogical tool, informing film scholars, critics, and fans alike, about blaxploitation's richness and complexity.

Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s

Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s
Title Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s PDF eBook
Author Novotny Lawrence
Publisher Routledge
Pages 146
Release 2007-12-12
Genre History
ISBN 1135900361

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This book examines a number of blaxploitation films – including Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970), Blacula (1972), and The Mack (1973) – and illustrates the manner in which 'blaxploitation' came to be understood as a separate genre.

Yesterday Will Make You Cry

Yesterday Will Make You Cry
Title Yesterday Will Make You Cry PDF eBook
Author Chester B. Himes
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 392
Release 1999
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780393318296

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"There could not be a fitter time or place for the publication of this great prison novel than today's United States." --H. Bruce Franklin, The Nation

The Real Cool Killers

The Real Cool Killers
Title The Real Cool Killers PDF eBook
Author Chester Himes
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 192
Release 2011-05-05
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0141967730

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The 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 and shot at. Now Galen is lying dead in the middle of a Harlem street. But the night's just beginning for detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson. Because they have a smoking gun but it couldn't have killed Galen, and they had a suspect but a gang called the Real Cool Moslems took him. And as patrol cars and search teams descend on the neighbourhood, their case threatens to take a turn for the personal. The Real Cool Killers is loaded with grizzly comedy and with all the raucous, threatening energy of the streets it's set on.

Blind Man with a Pistol

Blind Man with a Pistol
Title Blind Man with a Pistol PDF eBook
Author Chester B. Himes
Publisher
Pages 248
Release 1969
Genre African American police
ISBN

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New York is sweltering in the summer heat, and Harlem is close 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 evidence, Coffin Ed and Grave Digger find themselves pursuing two completely different cases through a maze of knifings, beatings, and riots that threaten to tear Harlem apart.