Cotton Comes to Harlem

Cotton Comes to Harlem

1964 • 243 pages

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'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily Telegraph 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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8 primary books

#7 in Harlem Cycle

Harlem Cycle is a 8-book series with 8 released primary works first released in 1957 with contributions by Chester Himes, Michel Fabre, and Robert E. Skinner.

#1
A Rage in Harlem
#2
The Real Cool Killers
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The Crazy Kill
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The Heat's On
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Cotton Comes to Harlem
#8
Blind Man with a Pistol

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