Chester Himes

Samuel L. Jackson gives a swaggering, darkly humored performance of Chester Himes' classic first novel....

Many people had reasons for killing Galen, a big Greek with too much money and too great a liking for young black girls....

Con man Deak O'Hara is out of the state penitentiary and back on the street working the scam of a lifetime....

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....

From the start, nothing goes fright for Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones. They are disciplined for use of excessive force. Grave Digger is shot and his death announced in a hoax radio bulletin....

Outside the apartment where a wake is going on, the manager of the A&P across the street is robbed....

An explosive and shocking hardboiled classic that explores the shadowy underbelly of New York as a urban civil war erupts on the side streets of Harlem....

New York is sweltering in the summer heat, and Harlem is close to the boiling point....