Chester Himes

	Chester Himes [1909-1984]

	Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson, police detectives in Harlem, New York City: [Himes permanently left the US for Paris in 1954; most of his Digger-Coffin books, along with other titles, were first published in French by Gallimard.]
	For Love of Imabelle (1957) La reine des pommes (1958) [translated from The Five-Cornered Square] APA: A Rage in Harlem (1965) Il pleut des coups durs (1958) [translated from If Trouble Was Money] The Real Cool Killers (1959) Couché dans le pain (1959) [translated from A Jealous Man Can’t Win] The Crazy Kill (1959) Tout pour plaire (1959) The Big Gold Dream (1960) Imbroglio negro (1960) [translated from Don’t Play with Death] All Shot Up (1960)	Ne nous énervons pas (1961) The Heat’s On (1966) APA: Come Back Charleston Blue (1970) Retour en Afrique (1964) Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965) Blind Man with a Pistol (1969) L’aveugle au pistolet (1970) APA: Hot Day, Hot Night (1970) Finalist 1970 Edgar Award for Best Mystery Plan B (1983) Plan B (1993)
	1. Included in omnibus Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s (1997) See also complete omnibus trilogy: The Harlem Cycle Volume 1: A Rage in Harlem; The Real Cool Killers; The Crazy Kill (1998), The Harlem Cycle Volume 2: The Big Gold Dream; All Shot Up; The Heat’s On (1998), and The Harlem Cycle Volume 3: Cotton Comes to Harlem; Blind Man with a Pistol; Plan B (1998)
	Non-series:
	Cast the First Stone (1952) APA: Yesterday Will Make You Cry (restored edition 1998) Dare-dare (1959) Run Man Run (1966) Finalist 1967 Gold Dagger Award	Une affaire de viol (1963) APA: A Case of Rape (1980) The Collected Stories of Chester Himes (1990) [SS]

	Other fiction:
	If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945) Lonely Crusade (1947) The Third Generation (1954)	The Primitive (1956) APA: The End of a Primitive (1990) Pinktoes (1965) Black on Black: “Baby Sister” and Other Writings (1973) [SS etc.]

	Autobiography:
	The Quality of Hurt (1972)	My Life of Absurdity (1976)