| ISBN |
9780241521083 (paperback) |
| Name |
Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984 author. |
| Uniform title |
For love of Imabelle |
| Title |
A rage in Harlem / Chester Himes ; with an afterword by Luc Sante. |
| Published |
London : Penguin Classics, 2021. |
| ©1985 |
| Description |
217 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Notes |
Originally published: as For love of Imabelle. Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett, 1957. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subjects |
Detectives -- New York (State) New York -- Fiction |
| Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction |
| Genre |
Detective and mystery fiction |
| Other Names |
Sante, Lucy writer of foreword. |
| Series |
Harlem detective series 01. |
| Penguin modern classics |
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