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Cotton Comes to Harlem is a hardboiled crime fiction novel written by Chester Himes in 1965. It is the sixth and best known of the Harlem Detective series. It was later adapted into a film of the same name in 1970 starring Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, and Redd Foxx.
- Chester B. Himes
- 1965
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Nov 28, 1988 · 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.
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- Chester B. Himes
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- Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
A classic entry in Chester Himes’s trailblazing Harlem Detectives series, Cotton Comes to Harlem is one of his hardest-hitting and most entertaining thrillers. 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.
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Dec 1, 1997 · Cotton Comes to Harlem. Hardcover – December 1, 1997. by Chester B. Himes (Author) 4.4 465 ratings. Book 7 of 7: Harlem Detectives. See all formats and editions. Con man Deak O'Hara is out of the state penitentiary and back on the street working the scam of a lifetime.
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- Chester B. Himes
May 18, 2021 · "Cotton Comes to Harlem" offers a spirited, spunky, and gamey look at life in Harlem in the 60s, tying together a plot filled with realistically-depicted Harlemites from all walks of life, including the two protagonist black detectives, Coffin Ed and Grave Digger.
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Aug 3, 2011 · Cotton Comes to Harlem. From “the best writer of mayhem yarns since Raymond Chandler” (San Francisco Chronicle) comes a hard-hitting, entertaining entry in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives...
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