Chester Himes

53 books

All Shot Up by Chester Himes

All Shot Up

Harlem Cycle #5

Chester Himes

192 pages • first pub 1960 (editions)

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 • first pub 2009 (editions)

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 • first pub 1991 (editions)

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

The Crazy Kill

Harlem Cycle #3

Chester Himes

160 pages • first pub 1959 (editions)

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 • first pub 1995 (editions)

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 • first pub 1997 (editions)

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 • first pub 1996 (editions)

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

The Heat's On

Harlem Cycle #6

Chester Himes

176 pages • first pub 1961 (editions)

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 • first pub 1993 (editions)

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 • first pub 2008 (editions)

fiction short stories challenging reflective medium-paced