Cotton comes to Harlem
By: Chester Himes.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Putnam
Published: 1965
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
Description: The sixth of the Grave Digger Jones & Coffin Ed Johnson Mysteries, this hardboiled crime fiction novel plays with thoughts of Black exploitation. Con man Deke O'Hara is no sooner out of Atlanta's state penitentiary than he's back on the streets working the scam of a lifetime. As a sponsor of the Back-to-Africa movement, he's counting on a rally to produce a massive collection for his own private charity. His take is hijacked by a white gunman. A duo of NYPD detectives piece together the scheme and investigate leads.
Notes: "Originally published in France under the title Retour en Afrique"--T.p verso.