by Chester Himes · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429731323
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«Cotó a Harlem» is the crime novel by Chester Himes, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (208 pages, in Catalan).
Detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones investigate the missing bale of cotton in 1960s Harlem. Reverend O'Malley, recently released from prison, raises money with a supposed return to Africa, and the case leads to a chain of deceit, violence and corruption where law and crime become blurred.
It is the seventh installment of the Harlem cycle. Original title: «Cotton Comes to Harlem» (1964). Collection «Seleccions de la Cua de Palla»; Catalan translation by Carme Geronès Planagumà and Carles Urritz Geli.
For readers of classic crime fiction interested in a sharp, critical view of Harlem in the 1960s.
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.
