Chester Himes

74 books

All Shot Up by Chester Himes

All Shot Up

Harlem Cycle #5

Chester Himes

192 pages • digital • 1960

fiction crime mystery mysterious fast-paced
Black Noir: Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction by African-American Writers by Gary Phillips, Walter Mosley, Paula L. Woods, Charles W. Chesnutt, Gar Anthony Haywood, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, Eleanor Taylor Bland, Rudolph Fisher, Otto Penzler, Edward P. Jones, Ann Petry, George S. Schuyler, Robert Greer, Hughes Allison, Chester Himes

Black Noir: Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction by African-American Writers

Gary Phillips, Walter Mosley, Paula L. Woods, Charles W. Chesnutt, Gar Anthony Haywood, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, Eleanor Taylor Bland, Rudolph Fisher, Otto Penzler, Edward P. Jones, Ann Petry, George S. Schuyler, Robert Greer, Hughes Allison, Chester Himes

336 pages • 2009

fiction crime mystery short stories mysterious slow-paced
The Collected Stories of Chester Himes by Calvin Hernton, Chester Himes

The Collected Stories of Chester Himes

Calvin Hernton, Chester Himes

428 pages • 1991

fiction crime short stories mysterious slow-paced
The Crazy Kill by Chester Himes

The Crazy Kill

Harlem Cycle #3

Chester Himes

160 pages • 1959

fiction crime mystery dark mysterious medium-paced
Hardboiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories by Robert Sampson, Paul Cain, John D. MacDonald, Elmore Leonard, Norbert Davis, Brett Halliday, Ross Macdonald, Margaret Maron, Evan Hunter, Jonathan Craig, Gil Brewer, Bill Pronzini, Frederick Nebel, James M. Cain, William Coe, Faye Kellerman, Jack Adrian, H.A. DeRosso, Lawrence Block, James Hannah, W.R. Burnett, James Reasoner, Jim Thompson, Leigh Brackett, Mickey Spillane, David Alexander, Benjamin Appel, Andrew Vachss, Michael Kerr, David Goodis, Raoul Whitfield, Ed Gorman, Helen Nielsen, Dashiell Hammett, Daniel Mainwaring, James Ellroy, Raymond Chandler, Chester Himes

Hardboiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories

Robert Sampson, Paul Cain, John D. MacDonald, Elmore Leonard, Norbert Davis, Brett Halliday, Ross Macdonald, Margaret Maron, Evan Hunter, Jonathan Craig, Gil Brewer, Bill Pronzini, Frederick Nebel, James M. Cain, William Coe, Faye Kellerman, Jack Adrian, H.A. DeRosso, Lawrence Block, James Hannah, W.R. Burnett, James Reasoner, Jim Thompson, Leigh Brackett, Mickey Spillane, David Alexander, Benjamin Appel, Andrew Vachss, Michael Kerr, David Goodis, Raoul Whitfield, Ed Gorman, Helen Nielsen, Dashiell Hammett, Daniel Mainwaring, James Ellroy, Raymond Chandler, Chester Himes

544 pages • 1995

fiction crime mystery short stories mysterious fast-paced
The Harlem Cycle Vol 3: Cotton Comes to Harlem; Blind Man with a Pistol; Plan B (Harlem Cycle, #7-9) by Lesley Himes, Chester Himes

The Harlem Cycle Vol 3: Cotton Comes to Harlem; Blind Man with a Pistol; Plan B (Harlem Cycle, #7-9)

Harlem Cycle #07-09

Lesley Himes, Chester Himes

512 pages • 1997

fiction crime dark slow-paced
The Harlem Cycle: A Rage in Harlem; The Real Cool Killers; The Crazy Kill (Harlem Cycle, #1-3) by Melvin Van Peebles, Chester Himes

The Harlem Cycle: A Rage in Harlem; The Real Cool Killers; The Crazy Kill (Harlem Cycle, #1-3)

Harlem Cycle #01-03

Melvin Van Peebles, Chester Himes

512 pages • 1996

fiction crime mystery mysterious slow-paced
The Heat's On by Chester Himes

The Heat's On

Harlem Cycle #6

Chester Himes

176 pages • digital • 1961

fiction crime mystery dark mysterious fast-paced
Plan B by Robert Skinner, Michel Fabre, Chester Himes

Plan B

Harlem Cycle #9

Robert Skinner, Michel Fabre, Chester Himes

203 pages • paperback • 1993

fiction mystery speculative fiction dark mysterious reflective slow-paced
Pow Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience by Ishmael Reed

Pow Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience

Ishmael Reed

536 pages • 2008

fiction short stories challenging reflective medium-paced