by Chester Himes · Plaza Janes · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401909795
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«Algodón en Harlem» is the crime novel by Chester Himes, published by Plaza Janés in paperback (250 pages, in Spanish).
In New York's Harlem, a community leader announces a passage back to Africa for a thousand dollars, and eighty-seven African Americans hand over their savings to get it. When two white robbers steal the collection and hide it in a bale of cotton, detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones take charge of the case.
The work belongs to the Gran Reno Policial collection, number 79.
For readers of noir and crime fiction with a backdrop of racial vindication.
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.
