A Rage in Harlem

The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler'' Sunday Timesbr>br>Jackson''s woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds. But when the scheme somehow fails, Jackson is left broke, wanted by the police and desperately racing to get back both his money and his loving Imabelle.br>br>The first of Chester Himes''s novels featuring the hardboiled Harlem detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, A Rage in Harlem has swagger, brutal humour, lurid violence, a hearse loaded with gold and a conman dressed as a Sister of Mercy.br>br>With an Introduction by Luc Sante>

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Product details

• Authors: Chester Himes
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9780241521083
• ISBN: 978-0-241-52108-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics; Grave Digger Jones & Coffin Ed
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Harlem, FICTION / City Life, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, FICTION / African American & Black / Urban & Street Lit, Street fiction / urban fiction, Relating to African American / Black American people