Cotton Comes to Harlem: A Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones Case
by Himes, Chester
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- 0394759990
- ISBN 13
- 9780394759999
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Cotton Comes to Harlem is the sixth and best known of Chester Himes’ Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson Mysteries. It was later adapted into a film starring Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, and Redd Foxx, that touted Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed as “Two Detectives Only a Mother Could Love.” When a con-man rigs the collection of a Back-To-Africa rally, money is hi-jacked by white gunman and hidden in a cotton bale. That bale becomes the center of the investigation, set against the backdrop of 1960s Harlem. Chester Himes was born in Missouri in 1909. He began writing while serving a prison sentence for a jewel theft and published just short of twenty novels before his death in 1984. Among his best-known thrillers are Blind Man with a Pistol , Cotton Comes to Harlem , The Crazy Kill , A Rage in Harlem , The Real Cool Killers , and The Heat's On . - -
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- Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (US)
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- Title
- Cotton Comes to Harlem: A Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones Case
- Author
- Himes, Chester
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0394759990
- ISBN 13
- 9780394759999
- Publisher
- Vintage Crime
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1988
- Product_type
- 2
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