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

'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday TimesJackson'...

The searing debut novel by Chester Himes, 'written with youthful panache and a bellyful of anger'...

The final novel in the trailblazing Harlem Detective series, set in a New York City at boiling po...

'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Da...

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

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)...

From “the best writer of mayhem yarns since Raymond Chandler” (San Francisco Chronicle) comes a h...

'In this page-turning installment of the classic Harlem Detectives series, a woman dies at a con ...

From the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a brilliant, short novel about a tragi...

Two lives spiral into a fatal pas de deux during a weekend of sex, alcohol and violence—from the ...