Easy has no idea that by taking this job, his life is about to change forever. Drinking in his friends bar, hes wondering how hell 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 Rawlins, a black war veteran, has just been fired from his job at a defense factory plant. The year is 1948, the town is Los Angeles. 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. Book Synopsis 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.
About the Book Mosley honors the tradition of the classic American detective novel by bestowing on it a vivid social canvas and the freshest new voice in crime writing in years, mixing the hard-boiled poetry of Raymond Chandler with the racial realism of Richard Wright to explosive effect.
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