A review by emmkayt
Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester Himes

3.0

I read [b:A Rage in Harlem|565816|A Rage in Harlem|Chester Himes|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1410733602s/565816.jpg|276413] a couple of years ago and enjoyed it, and this 7th book in the series featuring hard-boiled black police detectives Grave Digger and Coffin Ed is a good read too. Written a few years later in 1964, its Harlem setting has acquired a "Back-to-Africa" movement, a competing "Back to the Southland" movement led by a sinister white Southern colonel, and some Black Muslims who hold a tense rally. Kind of a cross of Raymond Chandler and blaxploitation films. The women characters all belong on the covers of lurid pulp fiction, the police dole out slaps and threats to suspects merrily, and it's very much of its time. Fun.