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White Butterfly: An Easy Rawlins Mystery

by Walter Mosley

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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 dies the same brutal death, and the cops put the heat on Easy: If he doesn't help, his best friend is headed for jail. So Easy's back, walking the midnight streets of Watts and the darker, twisted avenues of a cunning killer's mind....

Review:

"Wonderful page-turning excitement....Like Sue Grafton, Sara Paretsky, and others, Mosley has been reconstructing the hard-boiled tradition from the bottom up....Easy Rawlins moves through mean streets even Marlowe wouldn't walk." San Francisco Chronicle

Review:

"As usual, plotting, setting, dialogue, and social comment are all as mannered as Raymond Chandler and — if the manner doesn't put you off — nearly as compelling." Kirkus Reviews

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"With White Butterfly, Walter Mosley has established himself as one of America's best mystery writers." The New York Times Book Review

Review:

"As rich as the best Chandler and Ross MacDonald....Grabs you by the elbow from the get-go." Chicago Tribune
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About the Author

Walter Mosley is the author of the acclaimed Easy Rawlins series, the novels Bad Boy Brawly Brown, Fearless Jones, Blue Light, and RL's Dream, and a collection of stories, Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, for which he received the Anisfield-Wolf Award.

He was born in Los Angeles and lives in New York.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780743451772
Author:
Mosley, Walter
Publisher:
Washington Square Press
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
California
Subject:
American - African American & Black
Subject:
Mystery & Detective - General
Subject:
Mystery fiction
Subject:
Private investigators
Subject:
Los angeles
Subject:
Rawlins, Easy
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
American - African American
Subject:
Los angeles (calif.)
Subject:
Mystery-A to Z
Copyright:
2002
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series:
Easy Rawlins Mysteries
Series Volume:
03
Publication Date:
October 2002
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
320
Dimensions:
8.25 x 5.31 in 9.555 oz
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Product details 320 pages Washington Square Press - English 9780743451772 Reviews:
"Review" by , "Wonderful page-turning excitement....Like Sue Grafton, Sara Paretsky, and others, Mosley has been reconstructing the hard-boiled tradition from the bottom up....Easy Rawlins moves through mean streets even Marlowe wouldn't walk."
"Review" by , "As usual, plotting, setting, dialogue, and social comment are all as mannered as Raymond Chandler and — if the manner doesn't put you off — nearly as compelling."
"Review" by , "With White Butterfly, Walter Mosley has established himself as one of America's best mystery writers."
"Review" by , "As rich as the best Chandler and Ross MacDonald....Grabs you by the elbow from the get-go."
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