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Cotton Comes to Harlem

Chester Himes

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


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...

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 13 Jul 2023
Dimensions: 128 x 198 x 15 mm
ISBN: 9780241639221