Cotton Comes to Harlem

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Cotton Comes to Harlem

Classic crime and mystery fiction Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction

Author: Chester Himes

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Collection: Penguin Modern Classics

Language: English

Published by: Penguin

Published on: 5th May 2011

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 2 Mb

ISBN: 9780141196466


''The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect'' Daily Telegraph

Story Overview

A con-man is swindling the poor folk of Harlem out of their life savings - and now all hell's broken loose.

The ''Reverend'' Deke O'Malley has just made $87,000 by duping his followers, only for white gunmen to hijack the rally and escape with the cash hidden inside a bale of cotton. Now ace detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson must get the good people of Harlem their money back by any means necessary, in a raucous, breakneck adventure involving double-crosses, exotic dancers, a racist colonel and a whole pile of bodies...

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