Cotton Comes To Harlem by "The father of the black crime novel", Chester Himes by Himes, Chester

[African-American Fiction], [Harlem] Himes, Chester. Cotton Comes To Harlem. New York: G.P. Putnam, 1965. First American edition. Hardcover, 224 pages. Original red and black cloth hardcovers with white titled lettering on spine. Housed in original black dustjacket with white and red lettering. Dust jacket verso features a black and white portrait of Chester Himes in Paris. Octavo. Cotton Comes To Harlem is the sixth and best-known novel in Himes's Harlem Detective series. The book follows Black detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed as they search for $87,000 stolen from hardworking African-American families who dream of escaping poverty in America. The novel's popularity led to other crime novels featuring African-American police and detectives, earning Himes a reputation as the "father of the black crime novel". The novel was adapted into a film in 1970 and a BBC 4 Radio play in 2012. Dustjacket bright and intact. Pages and covers clean and bright. In very good condition.