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"One of the few black writers to have used the thriller genre to express the black experience in the U.S.A." - City Limits.
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A rattlingly good action melodrama spiced with a maximum of humor and a minimum of self-consciousness.
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One of the most important American writers of the 20th century. . . . A quirky American genius.
Walter Mosley
Some of the most exciting and comic crime novels ever written.
The Washington Post
Chester Himes is the best writer of mayhem yarns since Raymond Chandler.
San Francisco Chronicle"
"A rattlingly good action melodrama spiced with a maximum of humor and a minimum of self-consciousness."
--The New York Times
"One of the most important American writers of the 20th century. . . . A quirky American genius."
--Walter Mosley
"Some of the most exciting--and comic--crime novels ever written."
--The Washington Post
"Chester Himes is the best writer of mayhem yarns since Raymond Chandler."
--San Francisco Chronicle
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The New York Times
One of the most important American writers of the 20th century. . . . A quirky American genius.
Walter Mosley
Some of the most exciting and comic crime novels ever written.
The Washington Post
Chester Himes is the best writer of mayhem yarns since Raymond Chandler.
San Francisco Chronicle"
"A rattlingly good action melodrama spiced with a maximum of humor and a minimum of self-consciousness."
--The New York Times
"One of the most important American writers of the 20th century. . . . A quirky American genius."
--Walter Mosley
"Some of the most exciting--and comic--crime novels ever written."
--The Washington Post
"Chester Himes is the best writer of mayhem yarns since Raymond Chandler."
--San Francisco Chronicle
Chester Himes was born in Missouri in 1909. He began writing while serving a prison sentence for a jewel theft and published just short of twenty novels before his death in 1984. Among his best-known thrillers are Blind Man with a Pistol, Cotton Comes to Harlem, The Crazy Kill, A Rage in Harlem, The Real Cool Killers, and The Heat's On, all available from Vintage.
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- PublisherChatham Bookseller
- Publication date1975
- ISBN 10 0911860576
- ISBN 13 9780911860573
- BindingHardcover
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