Последние издания книг Честера Хаймза

Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones have lost two criminals. Pinky ran off - but it shouldn't be hard to track down a giant albino in Harlem. Jake the drug dealer, though, isn't coming back - he died after Grave Digger punched him in the stomach. And his death might cost them both their badges. Unless they can track down the cause of all this mayhem - like the African with his throat slit and the dog the size of a lion with an open head wound.
Chester Himes's hardboiled tales of Harlem have a barely contained chaos and a visceral, macabre edge all their own.

A con-man is swindling the poor folk of Harlem out of their life savings - and now all hell's broken loose.
The 'Reverend' Deke O'Malley has just made $87,000 by duping his followers, only for white gunmen to hijack the rally and escape with the cash hidden inside a bale of cotton. Now ace detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson must get the good people of Harlem their money back by any means necessary, in a raucous, breakneck adventure involving double-crosses, exotic dancers, a racist colonel and a whole pile of bodies...

A golden Cadillac big enough to cross the ocean has been seen sailing along the streets of Harlem. A hit-and-run victim's been hit so hard she got embedded in the wall of a convent. A shootout with three heistmen dressed as cops has left an important politician in a coma - and a lot of money missing. And Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson are the ones who have to piece it all together.
All Shot Up is chaotic, bloody - and completely unforgettable. Chester Himes wrote detective fiction darker, dirtier and more extreme than anyone else dared.

The night's over for Ulysses Galen. It started going bad for the big Greek when a knife was drawn, then there was an axe, then he was being chased and shot at. Now Galen is lying dead in the middle of a Harlem street. But the night's just beginning for detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson. Because they have a smoking gun but it couldn't have killed Galen, and they had a suspect but a gang called the Real Cool Moslems took him. And as patrol cars and search teams descend on the neighbourhood, their case threatens to take a turn for the personal.
The Real Cool Killers is loaded with grizzly comedy and with all the raucous, threatening energy of the streets it's set on.

A preacher called Deke O'Malley's been selling false hope: the promise of a glorious new life in Africa for just $1,000 a family. But when thieves with machine guns steal the proceeds - and send one man's brain matter flying - the con is up. Now Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed mean to bring the good people of Harlem back their $87,000, however many corpses they have to climb over to get it.
Cotton Comes to Harlem is a non-stop ride, with violence, sex, double-crosses, and the two baddest detectives ever to wear a badge in Harlem.

Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds. But when the scheme somehow fails, Jackson is left broke, wanted by the police and desperately racing to get back both his money and his loving Imabelle.
The first of Chester Himes's novels featuring the hardboiled Harlem detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, A Rage in Harlem has swagger, brutal humour, lurid violence, a hearse loaded with gold and a conman dressed as a Sister of Mercy.

The night's over for Ulysses Galen. It started going bad for the big Greek when a knife was drawn, then there was an axe, then he was being chased and shot at. Now Galen is lying dead in the middle of a Harlem street. But the night's just beginning for detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson. Because they have a smoking gun but it couldn't have killed Galen, and they had a suspect but a gang called the Real Cool Moslems took him. And as patrol cars and search teams descend on the neighbourhood, their case threatens to take a turn for the personal.

The Real Cool Killers is loaded with grizzly comedy and with all the raucous, threatening energy of the streets it's set on.

A preacher called Deke O?Malley?s been selling false hope: the promise of a glorious new life in Africa for just $1,000 a family. But when thieves with machine guns steal the proceeds ? and send one man?s brain matter flying ? the con is up. Now Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed mean to bring the good people of Harlem back their $87,000, however many corpses they have to climb over to get it.

Cotton Comes to Harlem is a non-stop ride, with violence, sex, double-crosses, and the two baddest detectives ever to wear a badge in Harlem.

With a new Introduction by Will Self.

Jackson?s woman has found him a foolproof way to make money ? a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds. But when the scheme somehow fails, Jackson is left broke, wanted by the police and desperately racing to get back both his money and his loving Imabelle.

The first of Chester Himes?s novels featuring the hardboiled Harlem detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, A Rage in Harlem has swagger, brutal humour, lurid violence, a hearse loaded with gold and a conman dressed as a Sister of Mercy.

With a new Introduction by Luc Sante.

Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones have lost two criminals. Pinky ran off ? but it shouldn?t be hard to track down a giant albino in Harlem. Jake the dwarf drug dealer, though, isn?t coming back ? he died after Grave Digger punched him in the stomach. And the dwarf?s death might cost them both their badges. Unless they can track down the cause of all this mayhem ? like the African with his throat slit and the dog the size of a lion with an open head wound.

Chester Himes?s hardboiled tales of Harlem have a barely contained chaos and a visceral, macabre edge all their own.

With a new Introduction by Noel 'Razor' Smith.

A golden Cadillac big enough to cross the ocean has been seen sailing along the streets of Harlem. A hit-and-run victim's been hit so hard she got embedded in the wall of a convent. A shootout with three heistmen dressed as cops has left an important politician in a coma - and a lot of money missing. And Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson are the ones who have to piece it all together.

All Shot Up is chaotic, bloody - and completely unforgettable. Chester Himes wrote detective fiction darker, dirtier and more extreme than anyone else dared.

Лучшие детективы Честера Хаймза. Белый полицейский Уокер совершил двойное убийство, и, как на грех, свидетелем преступления стал необразованный черный паренек Джимми. Отныне против него все: и дружки убийцы, и вполне честные копы, желающие, чтобы он дал показания против Уокера - и не понимающие, что для Джимми это равносильно смертному приговору... Детективы Джонсон и Джонс попадают в сложную ситуацию - они потеряли след двух опасных преступников. Один из них - убийца-альбинос сбежал и находится в розыске. Вскоре погибает и его партнер по бизнесу - карлик-наркодилер Джейк, причем в убийстве обвиняют детектива Джонса. Но эта смерть - лишь…

Лучшие детективы Честера Хаймза. Безжалостные преступления, холодные городские джунгли - и два крутых полицейских, расследующих самые безнадежные дела. Пьяный проповедник засмотрелся на уличное ограбление, выпал из окна своей квартиры - и приземлился точно в контейнер ближайшей булочной, на дне которого оказался труп с ножом в сердце. Деньги, собранные для благих целей, дерзко похищены. Собиравший их священник, в ужасе бежал в неизвестном направлении - а грабители затерялись в бесчисленных злачных заведениях "черных" кварталов. Свидетели лгут - или, по крайней мере, что-то скрывают. Ни один из обитателей Гарлема не хочет…

Yesterday Will Make You Cry (Paper)

Романы известного писателя отличают лихо закрученная, напряженная интрига и предельный драматизм характеров и ситуаций. В первых двух действуют блистательные гарлемские детективы Джонс Могильщик и Эд Гроб, расследующие загадочные убийства на фоне бесконечных перестрелок и драк. Героя третьего романа обвиняют в убийствах, совершенных полицейским. И теперь перед ним выбор - наказать виновного или погибнуть.

Yesterday Will Make You Cry

A classic entry in Chester Himes’s trailblazing Harlem Detectives series, Cotton Comes to Harlem is one of his hardest-hitting and most entertaining thrillers.

Flim-flam man Deke O’Hara is no sooner out of Atlanta’s state penitentiary than he’s back on the streets working the scam of a lifetime. As sponsor of the Back-to-Africa movement, he’s counting on a big Harlem rally to produce a massive collection—for his own private charity. But the take is hijacked by white gunmen and hidden in a bale of cotton that suddenly everyone wants to get his hands on. As NYPD detectives “Coffin Ed” Johnson and “Grave Digger” Jones piece together the complexity of the scheme, we are treated to Himes’s brand of hard-boiled crime fiction at its very best.

Честер Хаймз - мастер детективной прозы, известный американский писатель. В сборник включены три романа о Гарлеме - преступном районе Нью - Йорка, где с обманом и насилием ведут жестокую борьбу два темнокожих полицейских Могильщик и Гробовщик.

В сборник включены три детектива американских писателей: «Все застрелены» Честера Хаймса — роман об убийствах, совершенных за одну ночь в преступном районе Нью-Йорка, «Крутая разборка» Дональда Гамильтона — о разоблачении торговцев наркотиками и классический шпионский детектив «А доктор мертв» Крейга Райса.

A Rage in
Harlem is a
ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling New York City’s roughest streets in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series.

For love of fine, wily Imabelle, hapless Jackson surrenders his life savings to a con man who knows the secret of turning ten-dollar bills into hundreds—and then he steals from his boss, only to lose the stolen money at a craps table. Luckily for him, he can turn to his savvy twin brother, Goldy, who earns a living—disguised as a Sister of Mercy—by selling tickets to Heaven in Harlem.
With Goldy on his side, Jackson is ready for payback.