Cotton Comes to Harlem
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‘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…

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Weight 0.179 kg
Dimensions 1.4 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
PubliCanadation City/Country

United Kingdom
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Format

Paperback
Language

Pages

240
Publisher

Year Published

2023-7-13
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0241639220
About The Author

Chester Himes was arrested for armed robbery in 1928, aged 19, and sentenced to 25 years in jail. In jail he began to write short stories, some of which were published in Esquire magazine. Upon release he took a variety of jobs, from working in a California shipyard to journalism to script-writing, while continuing to write fiction. He later moved to Paris where he was commissioned to write the first of his Harlem detective novels, A Rage in Harlem, which won the 1957 Grand Prix du Roman Policier. In 1969 Himes moved to Spain, where he died in 1984.

The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler.
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A bawdy, brazen rollercoaster of a novel . . . the wildest.
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