Cotton Comes to Harlem
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Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester Himes
A classic entry in Chester Himes's trailblazing Harlem Detectives series, Cotton Comes to Harlem is one of his hardest-hitting and most entertaining thrillers.
Flim-flam man Deke O'Hara is no sooner out of Atlanta's state penitentiary than he's back on the streets working the scam of a lifetime. As sponsor of the Back-to-Africa movement, he's counting on a big Harlem rally to produce a massive collection--for his own private charity. But the take is hijacked by white gunmen and hidden in a bale of cotton that suddenly everyone wants to get his hands on. As NYPD detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones piece together the complexity of the scheme, we are treated to Himes's brand of hard-boiled crime fiction at its very best.
Chester Himes was the author of numerous novels, short stories, essays, and two films. Himes, who began writing while serving a prison term for jewel theft in the early 1940s, is best known for his angry social criticism in books like If He Hollers Let Him Go and Lonely Crusade and for his memorable Harlem detective novels.
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ISBN 13 | 9780394759999 |
ISBN 10 | 0394759990 |
Title | Cotton Comes to Harlem |
Author | Chester Himes |
Series | Harlem Detectives |
Condition | Unavailable |
Binding Type | Paperback |
Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
Year published | 1988-11-28 |
Number of pages | 160 |
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