Chester Himes

About The Author

After arriving on the American literary scene with novels of scathing social protest like If He Hollers Let Him Go and The Lonely Crusade, Chester Himes created a pioneering pair of dangerously charming African-American sleuths, Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson, who attempt to maintain some kind of order in a series of violent and funny page-turners.

Books by Chester Himes

The Big Gold Dream
“Himes is a writer with an enormous capacity to record sensuous life as it is experienced from one moment to the next.” —New York Times
All Shot Up

The Classic Crime Thriller

"The greatest find in American fiction since Raymond Chandler."—The Observer [London]
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