The Harlem cycle - Chester B. Himes

This second omnibus edition from Himes's famous Harlem Cycle
sees three more novels featuring his baddest and greatest creations -
Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones. Combining fantastic plots
with blood-soaked realism, Himes produced some of the greatest crime
novels ever.

He is rightfully seen as the godfather of black American
crime-writing and this, the second of three compendium editions, gives
new readers the chance to appreciate the black humour, gripping
storylines and social awareness that justify his description as 'a
crime writer of Chandlerian subtlety though in a vein of sheer
toughness very much his own' (The Times).