Chester himes
Praise for The Essential Harlem Detectives
These wholly original, occasionally disorienting and sometimes surreal books are a must for all crime fiction aficionados
Guardian
Chester Himes is perhaps the most singular American novelist of the past century, whose insight and innovation are still only beginning to be recognised
Independent
Himes's Harlem saga vies with the novels of David Goodis and Jim Thompson as the inescapable achievement of postwar American fiction
The New York Times
These wholly original, occasionally disorienting and sometimes surreal books are a must for all crime fiction aficionados
Guardian
Chester Himes is perhaps the most singular American novelist of the past century, whose insight and innovation are still only beginning to be recognised
Independent
Himes's Harlem saga vies with the novels of David Goodis and Jim Thompson as the inescapable achievement of postwar American fiction
The New York Times
These wholly original, occasionally disorienting and sometimes surreal books are a must for all crime fiction aficionados
Guardian
Chester Himes is perhaps the most singular American novelist of the past century, whose insight and innovation are still only beginning to be recognised
Independent
Himes's Harlem saga vies with the novels of David Goodis and Jim Thompson as the inescapable achievement of postwar American fiction
The New York Times
