Cotton Comes to Harlem: A Rage In Harlem, The Real Cool Killers, The Crazy Kill, Cotton Comes To Harlem (Harlem Detectives #7)

By: Chester Himes

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Synopsis: 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 O&’Hara is no sooner out of Atlanta&’s state penitentiary than he&’s back on the streets working a big scam. As sponsor of the Back-to-Africa movement, he&’s 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 Himes&’s brand of hard-boiled crime fiction at its very best.