'Chester Himes ist eine Schlüsselfigur in der Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts, ein scharfsinniger ...

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Alberta Wright drops dead on the street during a sermon by the charismatic con man Sweet Prophet....

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksBest known for his hardboiled Harlem Detec...

Thrill-seeking white teenager Jimmy Monroe is serving a twenty-year sentence for robbery. The pen...

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Love and jealousy erupt into violence in The Crazy Kill, a classic thriller in Chester Himes's tr...

The book that Walter Kirn said was like “Hieronymus Bosch meets Miles Davis' (The New York Times)...