Chester Himes was not the first black crime or detective novelist, or the first with a black detective. Rudolph Fisher (1897 - 1934), below right, an African-American, holds that distinction, for a little-known classic of the Harlem Renaissance, The Conjure-Man Dies (1932), which featured a black police detective and a black policeman who investigate … Continue reading African-American detectives & authors
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American and Hard-boiled.