Download or read book The Essential Harlem Detectives written by Chester Himes and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A one-volume selection of four novels in the legendary detective series—blistering, groundbreaking capers set in Harlem's criminal underworld—by master crime writer Chester Himes. With an introduction by New York Times bestselling author S.A. Cosby. “[Himes] put a spin on crime fiction—emphasizing urban atmosphere, street smarts, and uptown carryings-on—unlike anything the genre had previously seen.” —The Boston Globe “Himes’s Harlem saga vies with the novels of David Goodis and Jim Thompson as the inescapable achievement of postwar American crime fiction.” —The New York Times "His implacable drive to examine the Black experience, the disingenuous nature of the American Dream, the reality of pain and sorrow and what it does to the soul, that is what makes [Himes] the bard of the existential African American psyche." —S.A. Cosby, from his Introduction Here in one volume is an exceptional selection from Chester Himes's acclaimed Harlem Detectives series. Winner of France's prestigious Grand Prix de Littérature Policière and lauded by Jean Cocteau as a "prodigious masterpiece," A Rage in Harlem introduces detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson in a searing escapade. In The Real Cool Killers, the duo investigates a shooting and discovers an unsettling personal connection. In The Crazy Kill, a man is found in a breadbasket, stabbed to death, leaving Himes's detectives to find out who among the many suspects did it. And in Cotton Comes to Harlem, the brazen robbery of a notorious con man running a back-to-Africa scam sets off a hunt for a bale of Southern cotton. These masterful novels exhibit Himes's evocative, baroque descriptions of Black life in Harlem and his famously blistering social commentary. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times. "The best writer of mayhem yarns since Raymond Chandler." —San Francisco Chronicle

Download or read book Dan Turner Hollywood Detective 1 written by Robert Leslie Bellem and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight stories featuring Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective, from Spicy Detective and Speed Detective pulp magazines. "Temporary Corpse", "Death's Bright Halo", "Beyond Justice", "Dark Star of Death", "Blackmail From Beyond", "Crimson Quest", "Cat Act", and "Latin Blood".

Download or read book Infliction written by Ryan Poore and published by Patterson Crossroads LLC. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Miller’s life had been rough for the last two years but now it was crumbling around him. After finding out his daughter's death wasn't an accident, but a murder, he frantically grasps for answers. Robert and his family are hurled head first into the vicious plan of a psychotic killer. Some don't make it out of the death gauntlet as Robert comes face to face with a past he desperately wishes he could forget. This fast paced suspense/thriller will keep you guessing until the very end.

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Download or read book The Curious League of Detectives and Thieves 1 Egypt s Fire written by Tom Phillips and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilarious, non-stop adventure, a mysterious jewel heist, and a detective team like no other make this a must-have middle grade series starter. Perfect for fans of A Series of Unfortunate Events and Enola Holmes. After twelve-year-old John Boarhog’s mom dies, the last thing he wants is to be schlepped off to the Jersey Home for Boys, where kids are forced to make skinny jeans for hipsters and are fed nothing but kale. Instead, he makes himself a snug home in the ceiling of the New York Museum of Natural History, where he reads anything he get his hands on and explores the artifacts afterhours. But when a rare Egyptian ruby—the highlight of the museum’s new exhibit—goes missing, John is accused of the crime. That is until the unpredictable Inspector Toadius McGee sweeps in to wrestle control of the case, certain that the true culprit is a notorious criminal he’s been tracking for years. John quickly becomes the Watson to Toadius’s Holmes as they race from Broadway to back alleys to a speak-easy that only serves root beer. And along the way, John uncovers secrets about his own past, including that he’s a lot more involved in this web of endearing ne'er-do-wells than he ever could have imagined. A love letter to classic middle grade, Egypt's Fire introduces a remarkable new duo that will steal your heart as surely as it leaves you begging for their next grand adventure. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

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Download or read book The Seed Detective written by Adam Alexander and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radio 4's The Food Programme Book of the Year, chosen by Dan Saladino Longlisted for The Art of Eating Prize 2023 ‘If you’re a vegetable growing addict or just curious about their origins, there’s something for everyone in Adam’s new book.’ Rob Smith, TV presenter 'The writing is rich . . . [This book] is a clarion call to think about our food in new ways and carefully consider where it comes from.' New Scientist Meet the Indiana Jones of vegetables on his quest to save our heritage produce. Have you ever wondered how everyday staples such as peas, kale, asparagus, beans, squash and sweetcorn ended up on our plates? Well, so did Adam Alexander. Adam’s passion for heritage vegetables was ignited when he tasted an unusual, sweet and fiery pepper while on a filmmaking project in Ukraine. Smitten by its flavour, he began to seek out local growers of old and near-forgotten varieties in a mission to bring home seeds to grow and share – saving them from being lost forever. In The Seed Detective, Adam tells of his far flung (and closer to home) seed-hunting adventures and reveals the stories behind many of our everyday vegetable heroes. How the common garden pea was domesticated from three wild species over 8,500 years ago, that the first carrots originated in Afghanistan (and were actually purple or red in colour), how Egyptian priests considered it a crime to look at a fava bean and that the Romans were fanatical about asparagus. Join The Seed Detective as he takes us on a journey that began when we left the life of hunter-gatherers to become farmers. Sharing storiesof globalisation, political intrigue, colonisation and serendipity, Adam shows us the vital part vegetables have played in our food story – and how they are the key to our future. ‘Informative, enlightening and entertaining but also important.’ Mark Diacono ‘One of the most inspirational books I have encountered.’ Darina Allen

Download or read book The Alternative Detective written by Robert Sheckley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s the twenty-first century and the ugliness of war no longer exists, except on a very personal level. Nowadays, people like Marcello Polletti, seller of Roman sunsets, and Caroline Meredith, lithe, beautiful, blond, and backed by corporate sponsors and the Roy Bell Dancers, hunt, chase, and kill one another for sport and for the entertainment of the masses—until something oddly like personal human feelings pops up to confuse the players and up the stakes as each of them seeks to kill a tenth victim and rise in the ranks of the hunters. From the very beginning of his career, Robert Sheckley was recognized by fans, reviewers, and fellow authors as a master storyteller and the wittiest satirist working in the science fiction field. Open Road is proud to republish his acclaimed body of work, with nearly thirty volumes of full-length fiction and short story collections. Rediscover, or discover for the first time, a master of science fiction who, according to the New York Times, was “a precursor to Douglas Adams.”

Download or read book Detective School 101 written by J.R. Ripley and published by Beachfront Entertainment. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First in a new series by bestselling author J.R. Ripley! Jane Bright is a college-educated news reporter with loads of talent and determination. But she’s stuck writing a gardening and southern living column for a local South Florida paper. Jane wants more. Lots more. James Stewart, on the other hand, hasn’t been able to figure out what to do with his life. He’s a law school dropout. And this whole struggling musician thing has proven to be too much of a struggle. Jane and James stumble onto each other and into a murder case. And detective school. Bruno Caliostro’s School of Detection, located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to be precise. If you’re going to be a PI, you’ve got to be precise, right? Neither Jane nor James quite knows what they are doing when it comes to the detective biz. They are going to have to learn fast if Jane wants to get her story and James, framed for a murder he didn’t commit, wants to figure out the real killer’s identity so he doesn’t end up trading a classroom for a prison cell.

Download or read book Cleek the Master Detective written by Thomas W. Hanshew and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book DETECTIVE HAMILTON CLEEK TRILOGY written by Thomas W. Hanshew and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-05-29 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hamilton Cleek is a consulting detective and also known as "the man of the forty faces" for his incredible skill at disguise. Cleek is himself a reformed criminal and now helps Inspector Narkom of Scotland Yard in solving crimes in Clarges Street, London. "After due reflection over the question of disguise, Cleek determined for the present to revive that of Lieutenant Deland, and it was as that smart young officer that he once more took up his quarters in Clarges Street, in a house not very far from that which had been wrecked by Margot and her gang of Apaches. That they, too, were on his track was ascertained by Dollops, who traced them down to their lairs of Soho like a bloodhound scenting his quarry . . ." (Excerpt from "Cleek's Government Cases".) Thomas W. Hanshew (1857-1914) was an American author best known for his Hamilton Cleek Detective Series.

Download or read book Cleek the Man of the Forty Faces Or Cleek the Master Detective written by Thomas W. Hanshew and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Blind Man with a Pistol written by Chester Himes and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once grotesquely comic and unflinchingly violent: the final entry in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives series, set in New York in the sweltering summer heat. “A sensual, surreal, cartoonishly violent and breathtakingly bawdy comic universe.” —Los Angeles Times New York is sweltering in the summer heat, and Harlem is close to the boiling point. To Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, at times it seems as if the whole world has gone mad. Trying, as always, to keep some kind of peace—their legendary nickel-plated Colts very much in evidence—Coffin Ed and Grave Digger find themselves pursuing two completely different cases through a maze of knifings, beatings, and riots that threaten to tear Harlem apart.

Download or read book LONE WOLF Boxed Set 5 Detective Novels in One Edition written by Louis Joseph Vance and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 1411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lone Wolf is the nickname of the fictional character Michael Lanyard, a jewel thief turned private detective in a series of novels written by Louis Joseph Vance. "The Lone Wolf" series was so popular that it was featured in eight books and 24 films between 1914 and 1949, and also appeared in radio and television series. Contents: The Lone Wolf The False Faces Alias The Lone Wolf Red Masquerade: Being the Story of The Lone Wolf's Daughter The Lone Wolf Returns

Download or read book Collision Course written by Tony Gonzalez and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former Detective Sergeant with the Honolulu Police Department recreates the story of his childhood and a diverse group of individuals raised in Honolulu, Hawai’i, whose horrid thoughts and actions invariably lead them into terrifying paths of destruction. A fictional narrative based on real events portraying the special love and loyalty that individuals from all surroundings reserve for each other. Some of the characters names have been changed to protect the innocent. It’s touching. Check it out!

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