Devil in a Blue Dress (30th Anniversary Edition) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Devil in a Blue Dress (30th Anniversary Edition) write by Walter Mosley. This book was released on 2020-10-06. Devil in a Blue Dress (30th Anniversary Edition) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first novel by “master of mystery” (The New York Times) Walter Mosley, featuring Easy Rawlins, the most iconic African American detective in all of fiction. Named one of the “best 100 mystery novels of all time” by the Mystery Writers of America, this special thirtieth anniversary edition features an all new introduction from the author. The year is 1948, the town is Los Angeles. Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran, has just been fired from his job at a defense factory plant. Drinking in his friend’s bar, he’s wondering how he’ll manage to make ends meet, when a white man in a linen suit approaches him and offers him good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Money, a missing blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs. Easy has no idea that by taking this job, his life is about to change forever. “More than simply a detective novel…[Mosley is] a talented author with something vital to say about the distance between the black and white worlds, and with a dramatic way to say it” (The New York Times).
Devil in a Blue Dress (30th Anniversary Edition)
Devil in a Blue Dress (30th Anniversary Edition) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Devil in a Blue Dress (30th Anniversary Edition) write by Walter Mosley. This book was released on 2010-06-22. Devil in a Blue Dress (30th Anniversary Edition) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Devil in a Blue Dress, a defining novel in Walter Mosley’s bestselling Easy Rawlins mystery series, was adapted into a TriStar Pictures film starring Denzel Washington as Easy Rawlins and Don Cheadle as Mouse. Set in the late 1940s, in the African-American community of Watts, Los Angeles, Devil in a Blue Dress follows Easy Rawlins, 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 Monet, a blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs.
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey write by Walter Mosley. This book was released on 2011-11-01. The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NOW AN APPLE TV+ SERIES STARRING SAMUEL L. JACKSON The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey is a masterful, moving novel about age, memory, and family from one of the true literary icons of our time. Marooned in an apartment that overflows with mementos from the past, 91-year-old Ptolemy Grey is all but forgotten by his family and the world. But when an unexpected opportunity arrives, everything changes for Ptolemy in ways as shocking and unanticipated as they are poignant and profound.
White Butterfly
White Butterfly - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook White Butterfly write by Walter Mosley. This book was released on 2010-06-22. White Butterfly available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the acclaimed bestselling author of the Easy Rawlins series, deemed “one of America’s best mystery writers” (The New York Times Book Review), comes a tale about a murdered man who does not want to go to heaven or hell—he’d rather have his old life in Harlem. The police don't show up on Easy's doorstep until the third girl dies. It's Los Angeles, 1956 and it takes more than a murdered black girl before the cops get interested. Now they need Easy. The LAPD need help to find the serial killer who’s going around murdering young, African American strippers. They only show up when the killer murders a white girl. But Easy turns them down. As he says: "I was worth a precinct full of detectives when the cops needed the word in the ghetto." He’s married now, a father, and his detective days are over. When the white college coed dies, the cops make it clear that if Easy doesn't help his best friend is headed for jail. So Easy is back, walking the midnight streets of Watts and the darker twisted avenues of a cunning killer's mind, in the most explosive Easy Rawlins mystery yet.
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned write by Walter Mosley. This book was released on 2010-06-22. Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Mournful, insightful, and mystical...Mosley's best work of fiction." —Elle New York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley introduces us to Socrates Fortlow, an "astonishing character" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) in this acclaimed collection of linked stories. "I either committed a crime or had a crime done to me every day I was in jail. Once you go to prison you belong there." Socrates Fortlow has done his time: twenty-seven years for murder and rape, acts forged by his own two rock-breaking hands. Now, he has come home to a new kind of prison: two battered rooms in an abandoned building in Watts. Working a dead-end job at the supermarket and moving perilously close to invisibility, Socrates seeks inner truth and redemption amid the violence and hopelessness of South Central Los Angeles. In fourteen intertwining tales, Socrates grapples with situations that are never easy as he attempts to hold on to a job and offer a lifeline to a young man on his same bloodstained path. In Socrates's battle-scarred wisdom, there is hope of turning the world around in this "powerful, hard-hitting, unrelenting, poignant short fiction" (Booklist).
