Cotton Comes to Harlem
by Himes, Chester
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Whitby, Ontario, Canada
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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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Details
- Bookseller
- Minotavros Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014750
- Title
- Cotton Comes to Harlem
- Author
- Himes, Chester
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition Thus
- Publisher
- Dell Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- Fiction, pulp fiction, erotica, Chester Himes, Harlem
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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