Cotton Comes to Harlem (book)
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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.
Hardboiled
Hardboiled crime fiction is a literary style, most commonly associated with detective stories, distinguished by the unsentimental portrayal of violence and sex. The style was pioneered by Carroll John Daly in the mid-1920s, popularized by Dashiell Hammett over the course of the decade, and refined...
Crime Fiction
Crime fiction
Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred...
novel written by Chester Himes
Chester Himes
Chester Bomar Himes was an American writer. His works include If He Hollers Let Him Go and a series of Harlem Detective novels...
in 1965. It is the sixth, and best known of the Grave Digger Jones & Coffin Ed Johnson Mysteries
Harlem Detective
The Harlem Detective series of novels by Chester Himes comprises nine hardboiled novels set in the 1950s and early 1960s:* For Love of Imabelle, AKA A Rage in Harlem* The Crazy Kill* The Real Cool Killers* All Shot Up* The Big Gold Dream* The Heat's On...
. It was later adapted into a film of the same name in 1970 starring Red Foxx.