by Chester Himes · Plaza & Janés Editores, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401908132
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«Algodón en Harlem» is the crime novel by Chester Himes, published by Plaza & Janés Editores, S.A. in paperback (251 pages, in Spanish).
Reverend O'Malley collects eighty-seven thousand dollars from his congregation in Harlem to fund a return to Africa, but robbers steal the money and hide it in a bale of cotton that disappears. The reverend, the thieves, and detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson chase the loot across the city.
It is the seventh novel in Chester Himes's Harlem Cycle. It was originally published in 1964 as Cotton Comes to Harlem.
For readers of classic noir and crime fiction who enjoy hard-boiled detectives and chases through mid-twentieth-century Harlem.
Chester Bomar Himes was an American writer. His works, some of which have been filmed, include If He Hollers Let Him Go, published in 1945, and the Harlem Detective series of novels for which he is best known, set in the 1950s and early 1960s and featuring two black policemen called Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson. In 1958, Himes won France's Grand Prix de Littérature Policière.
