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Cotton Comes to Harlem

Cotton Comes to Harlem

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Cotton Comes to Harlem

by Chester Himes

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ISBN 10
0394759990
ISBN 13
9780394759999
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Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. Used - Like New. 1988. Paperback. Small publishers mark to text block. Otherwise, Fine.

Synopsis

Cotton Comes to Harlem is the sixth and best known of Chester Himes’ Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson Mysteries. It was later adapted into a film starring Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, and Redd Foxx, that touted Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed as “Two Detectives Only a Mother Could Love.” When a con-man rigs the collection of a Back-To-Africa rally, money is hi-jacked by white gunman and hidden in a cotton bale. That bale becomes the center of the investigation, set against the backdrop of 1960s Harlem. Chester Himes was born in Missouri in 1909. He began writing while serving a prison sentence for a jewel theft and published just short of twenty novels before his death in 1984. Among his best-known thrillers are Blind Man with a Pistol , Cotton Comes to Harlem , The Crazy Kill , A Rage in Harlem , The Real Cool Killers , and The Heat's On . - -

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Cotton Comes to Harlem
Author
Chester Himes
Book Condition
New Used - Like New
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0394759990
ISBN 13
9780394759999
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Place of Publication
New York, New York, U.s.a.
This edition first published
1988-11-28

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