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'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily Telegraph


A con-man is swindling the poor folk of Harlem out of their life savings - and now all hell's broken loose.

The 'Reverend' Deke O'Malley has just made $87,000 by duping his followers, only for white gunmen to hijack the rally and escape with the cash hidden inside a bale of cotton. Now ace detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson must get the good people of Harlem their money back by any means necessary, in a raucous, breakneck adventure involving double-crosses, exotic dancers, a racist colonel and a whole pile of bodies...

Cotton Comes to Harlem

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'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily TelegraphA con-man is swindling the... Read more

    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 13/07/2023
    ISBN13: 9780241639221, 978-0241639221
    ISBN10: 0241639220

    Number of Pages: 240

    Fiction , Crime & Thriller

    Description

    'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily Telegraph


    A con-man is swindling the poor folk of Harlem out of their life savings - and now all hell's broken loose.

    The 'Reverend' Deke O'Malley has just made $87,000 by duping his followers, only for white gunmen to hijack the rally and escape with the cash hidden inside a bale of cotton. Now ace detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson must get the good people of Harlem their money back by any means necessary, in a raucous, breakneck adventure involving double-crosses, exotic dancers, a racist colonel and a whole pile of bodies...

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