Cotton Comes to Harlem
by Himes, Chester
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394759990
- ISBN 13
- 9780394759999
- Seller
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Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States
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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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- Bookseller
- Montana Book Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 089587
- Title
- Cotton Comes to Harlem
- Author
- Himes, Chester
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0394759990
- ISBN 13
- 9780394759999
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1988
- Pages
- 159
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- FICTION MYSTERY HARLEM HIMES, CHESTER
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