Cotton Comes to Harlem (novel)

Cotton Comes to Harlem (novel)
Cotton Comes to Harlem-  
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1st UK edition
Author(s) Chester Himes
Cover artist Terrance Cummings
Country United States
Language English
Series Grave Digger Jones & Coffin Ed Johnson Mysteries
Genre(s) (Hardboiled Crime Fiction)
Publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons(US)
Muller (UK)
Publication date 1965
Media type Print Paperback
Pages 159 pp
ISBN ISBN 0-394-75999-0
OCLC Number 88040045
Dewey Decimal 813/.54
LC Classification PS3515.I713 C68 1988
Preceded by The Big Gold Dream
Followed by The Heat's On

Cotton Comes to Harlem is a Hardboiled Crime Fiction novel written by Chester Himes in 1965. It is the sixth, and best known of the Grave Digger Jones & Coffin Ed Johnson Mysteries. It was later adapted into a film of the same name in 1970 starring Red Foxx.


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