Cotton Comes to Harlem
Author: Chester Himes
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780241639221
A con-man is swindling the poor folk of Harlem out of their life savings and now all hell's broken loose. The 'Reverend' Deke O'Malley has just made $87,000 by duping his followers, only for white gunmen to hijack the rally and escape with the cash hidden inside a bale of cotton. Now ace detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson must get the good people of Harlem their money back by any means necessary, in a raucous, breakneck adventure involving double-crosses, exotic dancers, a racist colonel and a whole pile of bodies.
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