Cotton Comes to Harlem
New York : Vintage Books, 1988.
Format: Book
Description: 159 pages ; 21 cm
"Black flim-flam 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 sponsor of the Back-to-Africa movement he's counting on the big Harlem rally to produce a big 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 piece together the complexity of the scheme, we are treated to Himes's brand of hard-boiled crime fiction at its very best."--back cover.
Series: Vintage crime/Black Lizard.
Subjects:
African American police -- Fiction.
Jones, Grave Digger (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Johnson, Coffin Ed (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Police -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
American fiction -- 20th century.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
African American police -- Fiction.
Jones, Grave Digger (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Johnson, Coffin Ed (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Police -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
American fiction -- 20th century.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
0394759990
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
M Himes | Sandhills Indoors | Mystery | Transit Request |
"A Coffin Ed Johnson & Grave Digger Jones case"--front cover.