Chester Himes

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

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

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

336 pages • 2009

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

Hardboiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories

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

544 pages • 1995

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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 Chester Himes, Michel Fabre, Robert Skinner

Plan B

Harlem Cycle #9

Chester Himes, Michel Fabre, Robert Skinner

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