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Chester Himes - Cotton Comes to Harlem

Chester Himes - Cotton Comes to Harlem: Episode 4

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Chester Himes - Cotton Comes To Harlem

Episode 4

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Chester Himes - Cotton Comes to Harlem, Episode 4

Detectives Digger and Coffin have taken the gamble of their careers, but will it pay off?

New York 1965, and detectives Digger and Coffin have taken the gamble of their careers, but will it pay off? Read by Hugh Quarshie.

New York, 1965: detectives Digger and Ed have taken the biggest gamble of their careers and smuggled Iris out of jail hoping she'll lead them to Deke and the money. So why is she going to church?

Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson are the most notorious Detectives in the Harlem precinct. Their methods are unorthodox, and some people think they're trigger happy, but ask any law-abiding citizen of Harlem and they'll sing their praises. When the Reverend Deke O'Malleys Back to Africa movement collected $87,000 from poor black families - only to have it stolen from under their noses - Jones and Johnson are determined to get it back. 

Hugh Quarshie reads Chester Himes' thriller. 
 
Abridged and produced by Chris Wallis.
 
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Sixties hard-boiled crime fiction by Chester Himes, part of his Harlem Detective series.

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