Cotton comes to Harlem

B. Himes Chester

£9.99

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Con man Deke O’Hara is out of the state penitentiary and hoping to work the scam of a lifetime. But the $87,000 he has schemed has been hijacked and hidden in a bale of cotton. Worse still, Harlem’s toughest cops are on everyone’s trail.

ISBN: 9780241639221 Category:

Description

‘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…

Additional information

Weight 0.179 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 1.4 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

240

Language

English

Edition

Reprint

Dewey

813.54 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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