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Con man Deke O'Hara is out of the state penitentiary and back on the streets hoping to work the scam of a lifetime. Unfortunately, the $87,000 he has schemed has been hijacked and hidden in a bale of cotton. And worse still, Harlem's toughest pair of cops, Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones are on everyone's trail.Cotton Comes to Harlem, with its combination of blood-soaked realism and black humour, proves to be one of the most entertaining of Himes' Harlem novels, justifying the author's place in the canon of truly great American crime writing. (less)

Con man Deke O'Hara is out of the state penitentiary and back on the streets hoping to work the scam of a lifetime. Unfortunately, the $87,000 he has schemed has been hijacked and hidden in a bale of cotton. And worse still, Harlem's (…more)