Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester Himes Paperback Book 9780241639221

The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouthwatering prospect Daily TelegraphA conman is swindling the poor folk of Harlem out of their life savings and now all hells broken looseThe Reverend Deke OMalley has just made 87000 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 doublecrosses exotic dancers a racist colonel and a whole pile of bodies