Con man Deak O\'Hara is out of the state penitentiary and back on the street working the scam of a lifetime.
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..
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 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.
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.
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.
Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones are on everyone\'s trail in one of their most entertaining thrillers.
The $87,000 he has schemed to get has been hijacked and hidden in a bale of cotton.
Con man Deak O\'Hara is out of the state penitentiary and back on the street working the scam of a lifetime
