Cotton Comes to Harlem (novel)

Cotton Comes to Harlem
First UK edition
AuthorChester Himes
Cover artistTerrance Cummings
LanguageEnglish
SeriesHarlem Detective
GenreHardboiled crime fiction
PublisherG. P. Putnam's Sons (US)
Muller (UK)
Publication date
1965
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages159 pp
ISBN0-394-75999-0
OCLC88040045
813/.54
LC ClassPS3515.I713 C68 1988
Preceded byThe Big Gold Dream 
Followed byThe Heat's On 

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 Harlem Detective series. It was later adapted into a film of the same name in 1970 starring Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, and Redd Foxx.