Cotton Comes to Harlem

ISBN: 0394759990

Author: Himes, Chester

Condition: New

From the best writer of mayhem yarns since Raymond Chandler (San Francisco Chronicle) comes a hard-hitting, entertaining entry in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives series about two NYPD detectives who must piece together the clues of the scam of a lifetime.Flim-flam man Deke OHara is no sooner out of Atlantas state penitentiary than hes back on the streets working a big scam. As sponsor of the Back-to-Africa movement, hes counting on a big Harlem rally to produce a massive collection-for his own private charity. But the take is hijacked by white gunmen and hidden in a bale of cotton that suddenly everyone wants to get his hands on. As NYPD detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones face the complexity of the scheme, we are treated to Himess brand of hard-boiled crime fiction at its very best.