Cotton Comes to Harlem
Chester Himes
Series:
Category: Fiction / Crime Thrillers
Format: Paperback / softback
Publication date: 7/13/23
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN 13: 9780198810506
Total Pages: 240 pages
Weight: 180
Dimensions: 128 x 198 x 15
The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphA 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...