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A brand-new mystery series from one of the country’s best-known, best-loved writers: a new character, a new city, a new era. A new Walter Mosley. His name is etched on the door of his Manhattan office: LEONID McGILL , PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR. It’s a name that takes a little explaining, but he’s used to it. “Daddy was a communist and great-great- Granddaddy was a slave master from Scotland. You know, the black... (more)

Devil in a Blue Dress

by Walter Mosley

Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant. Easy is drinking in a friend's bar, wondering how he'll meet his mortgage, when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Money, a blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs....

Killing Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel

Killing Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel

by Walter Mosley

This bold new novel from Walter Mosley startles in both its rawness and its honest portrayal of a man on a quest for sexual redemption in midlife. When Cordell Carmel catches his longtime girlfriend with another man, the act that he witnesses seems to dissolve all the boundaries he knows. In that instant, the calm existence of this middle-aged New York City man becomes something unrecognizable: he wants revenge,... (more)

A Red Death : Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Silver Lining"

A Red Death : Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Silver Lining"

by Walter Mosley

It's 1953 in Red-baiting, blacklisting Los Angeles, a moral tar pit ready to swallow Easy Rawlins. Easy is out of "the hurting business" and into the housing (and favor) business when a racist IRS agent nails him for tax evasion. Special Agent Darryl T. Craxton, FBI, offers to bail him out if he agrees to infiltrate the First American Baptist Church and spy on alleged communist organizer Chaim Wenzler. That's when... (more)

The Man in My Basement

by Walter Mosley

Hailed as a masterpiece-the finest work yet by an American novelist of the first rank-The Man in My Basement tells the story of Charles Blakey, a young black man who can't find a job, drinks too much, and, worst of all, stands to lose the beautiful home that has belonged to his family for generations. But Charles's fortunes take an odd turn when a stranger offers nearly $50,000 to rent out Charles's basement-and... (more)

Blonde Faith

by Walter Mosley

Easy Rawlins, L.A.'s most reluctant detective, comes home one day to find Easter, the daughter of his friend Chrismas Black, left on his doorstep. Easy knows that this could only mean that the ex-marine Black is probably dead, or will be soon. Easter's appearance is only the beginning, as Easy is immersed in a sea of problems. The love of his life is marrying another man and his friend Mouse is wanted for the... (more)

Diablerie: A Novel

by Walter Mosley

In this icy noir from a master of American fiction, the darkest secrets are the ones we keep hidden from ourselves. Ben Dibbuk has a good job, an accomplished wife, a bright college-age daughter, and a patient young mistress. Even as he goes through the motions of everyday life, however, inside he feels nothing. The explanation for this emotional void lies in the years he spent as a blacked-out drunk before... (more)

White Butterfly 1ST EditionWalter Mosley

White Butterfly 1ST Edition

by Walter Mosley

Red Death 1ST EditionWalter Mosley

Red Death 1ST Edition

by Walter Mosley

Gone Fishin' (ISBN: 1574780255)Walter Mosley

Gone Fishin' (ISBN: 1574780255)

by Walter Mosley

Six Easy Pieces: Easy Rawlins Stories

by Walter Mosley

Easy should be living a contented life, with steady work as senior head custodian of Sojourner Truth High School, and a loving family. But happiness is as elusive for Easy as smoke in shadows. Easy's the man folks seek out when they can't take their problems to anyone else. Trading favors and investigating cases of arson, murder, missing persons, and false accusations, it's hard to steer clear of trouble. Easy... (more)

Cinnamon Kiss

by Walter Mosley

It is the Summer of Love as CINNAMON KISS opens, and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armored car. Its farther outside the law than Easy has ever traveled but his daughter, Feather, needs a medical treatment that costs far more than Easy can earn or borrow in time. And his friend Mouse tells him its a cinch. Then another friend, Saul Lynx, offers a job that might solve Easy's problem without jail time. He... (more)

The Wave (Unabridged)

by Walter Mosley

Errol is awakened again by a strange prank caller asking for him by name and claiming to be his fatherwho has been dead for several years. It feels like a surreal call from the grave, until Erroll hears the unmistakable sound of a handset being put down on a table. Curious, and not a little unnerved, he sneaks into the graveyard where his father is buried. What he finds there will change his life forever. But once... (more)

Fear Itself

by Walter Mosley

Fearless Jones and Paris Minton, stars of the bestsellers Fearless Jones and Fear Itself, return in a fast-paced thriller about family and revenge. For Paris Minton, a knock on his door is often the first sign of trouble. So when he finds his lowlife cousin, Ulysses S. Grant, or Useless, on the other side of his front door, Paris keeps it firmly closed. With family like Useless, who needs enemies?... (more)

Little Scarlet: An Easy Rawlins Novel

by Walter Mosley

Los Angeles, 1965, right after the Watts Riots, six summer days of racial violence--burning, looting, and killing--that followed the routine arrest of a black motorist for drunken driving. Although custodian and unlicensed PI Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins stayed safely inside during the turmoil, as an African-American male he understands all too well what it was about. "It's hot and people are mad," he explains in Walter... (more)

White Butterfly : Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Lavender"

White Butterfly : Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Lavender"

by Walter Mosley, Paul Winfield

The police don't show up on Easy Rawlins's doorstep until the third girl dies. It's Los Angeles, 1956, and it takes more than one murdered black girl before the cops get interested. Now they need Easy. As he says: "I was worth a precinct full of detectives when the cops needed the word in the ghetto." But Easy turns them down. He's married now, a father -- and his detective days are over. Then a white college coed... (more)

47

by Walter Mosley

A young slave boy is named and numbered 47 on a nineteenth-century Georgia plantation and encounters the brutality and injustice of the system of slavery. 47 meets a strange being named Tall John who appears to be another slave boy - a runaway. But as 47 comes to realise, John is an extraterrestrial visitor who believes that his destiny is intertwined with the young slave's. Tall John is a science fiction... (more)

Bad Boy Brawly Brown: An Easy Rawlins Mystery

Bad Boy Brawly Brown: An Easy Rawlins Mystery

by Walter Mosley

Racial tensions and America's civil rights movement have previouslyfigured into Walter Mosley's series about sometimes-sleuth Ezekiel "Easy"Rawlins. But Bad Boy Brawly Brown turns what had been a backgroundelement into compelling surface tension. The year is 1964, and though Easy seemssettled into honest work as a Los Angeles custodian, he's having otherproblems--notably, his adopted son's wish to quit school and... (more)

Accident

by Nicholas Mosley

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