Cotton comes to Harlem / Chester Himes.

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The sixth of the Grave Digger Jones & Coffin Ed Johnson Mysteries, this hardboiled crime fiction novel plays with thoughts of Black exploitation. Con man Deke O'Hara is no sooner out of Atlanta's state penitentiary than he's back on the streets working the scam of a lifetime. As a sponsor of the Bac...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Jack and Susan Davis Rare Book Collection.
Main Author: Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984
Language:English
Published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1965], [©1965]
Edition:First American edition.
Series:Jack and Susan Davis Rare Book Collection.
Subjects:
Jones, Grave Digger (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Johnson, Coffin Ed (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
African American police > Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Genre:
Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Local Note:
MSU: Copy 2 gift of Jack and Susan Davis.
MSU: Copy 2 in dust jacket.
Physical Description:223 pages ; 21 cm
Format: Book

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