Character profile for Grave Digger Jones from A Rage in Harlem …
WebCharacter profile for Grave Digger Jones from A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1) (page 1) Sign In Join Home My Books Browse Community Grave Digger Jones edit descriptions of this character Grave Digger Jones's photo gallery No photos have been uploaded yet. Books with Grave Digger Jones More Characters Coffin Ed Johnson Deke O'Hara
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Godfrey Cambridge: Grave Digger Jones - IMDb
WebGravedigger Jones : One more word, soul brother. You had it made. Black folks would have followed you anywhere. You could've been another Marcus Garvey or even another Malcolm X. But instead you ain't nothin' but a pimp with a chicken-shit backbone. [Coffin slaps the fancy cigarette lighter from Deke's hand as he tries to light a cigarette]
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A Rage in Harlem: A Grave Digger & Coffin Ed Novel (Classic …
WebFeb 1, 2014 · Fantastic book. This is the first of the series which features Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson, two of Harlem's finest detectives. Chester Himes is a great writer and despite the books having been written more than 50 years ago, they still read so well and to me they are timeless. Perhaps that's the hallmark of a good novel.
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A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1) by Chester …
WebCoffin Ed Johnson ace black detective in Harlem. His face is scarred by thrown acid, giving him an explosive bad temper Grave Digger is also an ace black detective in Harlem working with Coffin Ed to find out who the hijackers were and get back the people's money.
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Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester Himes (1964)
WebLater Jackson drives the hearse, a runaway through the stalls of a Harlem market with his brother's corpse and the trunk of ore toppling out. Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones are almot peripheral. With the exception of an acid attack on Coffin, and Grave Digger's resultant agony, all is righted in the end - Jackson gets his job and Imabelle back.
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A Rage In Harlem movie review (1991) | Roger Ebert
WebDec-1988 Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones are in the hot seat in one of the most chaotic, brutally funny novels in Chester Himes's groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. From the start, nothing goes right for Coffin Ed and Grave Dig The Real Cool Killers Dec-1988
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Chester Himes' Harlem Detective books in order
WebThe profile of Coffin Ed Johnson, Grave Digger Jones, and Easy Rawlins as hard-boiled detec- tives is inescapably attached to the hard-boiled formula established by Raymond Chandler in his essay "The Simple Art of Murder" (1944). The noir detective, as Elizabeth Ford explains, "must rely on a cer- tain amount of predictability in human
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Come Back, Charleston Blue - Wikipedia
WebTo Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, at times it seems as if the whole world has gone mad. Trying, as always, to keep some kind of peace - their legendary nickel-plated Colts very much in evidence - Coffin Ed and Grave Digger find themselves pursuing two completely different cases through a maze of knifings, beatings, and riots that
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Harlem Detectives Series (6 Book Series) by Chester …
WebGravedigger by Dave Matthews Band Album: Some Devil ( 2003) License This Song songfacts ® artistfacts Cyrus Jones 1810 to 1913 Made his great grandchildren believe You could live to a hundred and three A hundred and three is forever when you're just a little kid So Cyrus Jones lived forever Gravedigger When you dig my grave
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Gravedigger - Wikipedia
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Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester Himes (1964)
WebJarema : Now, watch it, lady. Gravedigger Jones : O'Malley ain't here. He's been released. Iris : Gimme back my pastor! Gravedigger Jones : O'Malley ain't here, I tell you, and if you don't get the hell outta here with all that noise I'm gonna jail …
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Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones - FictionDB
WebThe profile of Coffin Ed Johnson, Grave Digger Jones, and Easy Rawlins as hard-boiled detec- tives is inescapably attached to the hard-boiled formula established by Raymond Chandler in his essay "The Simple Art of Murder" (1944). The noir detective, as Elizabeth Ford explains, "must rely on a cer- tain amount of predictability in human
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A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Detectives Book 1) Kindle Edition
WebJul 20, 2011 · A ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling New York City's roughest streets in Chester Himes's groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. "Himes's Harlem saga vies with the novels of David Goodis and Jim Thompson as the inescapable achievement of postwar American crime fiction." —The …
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The Gravedigger/List of Appearances | Bones Wiki | Fandom
WebGrave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson rank among the hardest-boiled cops in American detective fiction, deploying guile, brute force, and a barrage of acidic quips as they battle crime in mid-20th-century Harlem. Chester Himes created Grave Digger and Coffin Ed in 1956, and he won global acclaim with a series of novels detailing their exploits.
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Grave Digger Jones - Oxford Reference
WebIt is Grave Digger who offers most of Himes's commentary on U.S. racism and on the plight of urban African Americans living in poverty-stricken ghettos. Though Grave Digger is usually portrayed as the more rational of the two detectives, he can be brutal in his investigative tactics. His gun, a custom-made long-barreled nickel-plated .38, is
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Coffin & Grave Digger Mysteries - Buffalo
WebFeb 25, 2023 · An unparalleled prose stylist, the largest part of his corpus is the nine-book Harlem Detective series (1957-1983, which follows two brutal and unyielding police detectives, Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson.
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Grave Digger Jones - Oxford Reference
WebGrave Digger Jones Quick Reference Is the constant partner of Coffin Ed Johnson in the detective novels of Chester Himes. Though the two African American detectives are very much alike, Grave Digger is often the more philosophical of the two, and he frequently acts as spokesperson for the pair.
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A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Detectives Book 1) Kindle Edition
WebAs sponsor of the Back-to-Africa movement, he's counting on the big Harlem rally to produce a big collection - for his own private charity. But the take ($87,000) is hijacked by white gunmen and hidden in a bale of cotton that suddenly everyone wants to get his hands on.
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Grave Digger (monster truck) - Wikipedia
WebCoffin Ed Johnson ace black detective in Harlem. His face is scarred by thrown acid, giving him an explosive bad temper Grave Digger is also an ace black detective in Harlem working with Coffin Ed to find out who the hijackers were and get back the people's money.
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Harlem Cycle Series by Chester Himes - Goodreads
Web9 primary works • 9 total works Featuring Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, and set in New York's 1950s and 1960s Harlem. Originally written for Gallimard's Série Noire in France. Book 1 A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes 3.90 · 5,715 Ratings · 513 Reviews · published 1957 · 65 editions A Rage in Harlem is a ripping introduction to Coff…
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