

But his need overcomes all concerns, and he plunges into unfamiliar territory, from the newfound hippie enclaves to a vicious plot that stretches back to the battlefields of Europe. Easy can tell there is much more than he is being told: Robert Lee, his new employer, is as suspect as the man who disappeared. His assistant of sorts, the beautiful "Cinnamon" Cargill, is gone as well. He has to track the disappearance of an eccentric, prominent attorney. Then another friend, Saul Lynx, offers a job that might solve Easy's problem without jail time. And his friend Mouse tells him it's a cinch. It's 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. Walter Mosley is one of the most acclaimed writers at work today, an original thinker and an important public figure.

It is the Summer of Love and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armored car. Find a link to the full-length interview in the upper-right.In this thrilling mystery, Easy Rawlins takes a job to find a missing attorney and his beautiful assistant-and faces danger around every corner. MPR's Toni Randolph spoke with the author. riots were a pivotal moment in American history.

Available in used condition with free US shipping on orders over 10. So they enlist Easy to help find her killer. Buy Little Scarlet: An Easy Rawlins Mystery By Walter Mosley. The police think the killer is white, but they want to keep things hush-hush because they don't want the riots to re-erupt. This time a black woman nicknamed "little Scarlet," because of her red hair, has been killed during the Los Angeles riots in 1965. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does. Writer Walter Mosley's latest novel "Little Scarlet," features the street detective once again trying to solve a mystery. Little Scarlet, the eighth Rawlins novel (after Bad Boy Brawly Brown), is unusual for Mosley, because it focuses as much on the credible mechanics of crime-solving as it does on the exposition of character and the exploration of L.A.'s mid-20th-century black culture. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading.

Mosley examines 1960s race relations in sleuth novel 'Little Scarlet'Įasy Rawlins is back in Walter Mosley's latest novel, "Little Scarlet." (Courtesy of Little, Brown Publishers)Įasy Rawlins is back. new film is Walter Mosley, the novelist who penned both Devil and Scarlet. Soon afterward, a redheaded woman known as Little Scarlet was found dead in that building - and the fleeing man is the obvious suspect. Little Scarlet: An Easy Rawlins Mystery by Walter Mosley, order for Little Scarlet by Walter Mosley Order: USA Can Little, Brown & Co. Talk about this story in the MPR News Forum Only this time, in Little Scarlet, theyll be played by Mos Def and Jeffrey. A man was wrenched from his car by a mob at the riots peak and escaped into a nearby apartment building.
