Now an independent operative in Watts, Easy Rawlin is caught in a crunch between a vengeful IRS agent in search of his cash and an obsessed FBI man in search of Reds.
Now an independent operative in Watts, Easy Rawlin is caught in a crunch between a vengeful IRS agent in search of his cash and an obsessed FBI man in...
In this reissued Easy Rawlins mystery, the time is 1956 and no one in Los Angeles is much bothered as a serial killer proceeds to murder three black bar girls. But when a white stripper is similarly murdered, the heat is finally on to arrest somebody.
In this reissued Easy Rawlins mystery, the time is 1956 and no one in Los Angeles is much bothered as a serial killer proceeds to murder three black b...
1961: For most black Americans, these were times of hope. For former P.I. Easy Rawlins, Los Angeles's mean streets were never meaner...or more deadly. Ordinarily, Easy would have thrown the two bills in the sleazy shamus' face -- the white man who wanted him to find the notorious Black Betty, an ebony siren whose talent for all things rich and male took her from Houston's Fifth Ward to Beverly Hills. There was too much Easy wasn't being told, but he couldn't resist the prospect of seeing Betty again, even if it killed him....
1961: For most black Americans, these were times of hope. For former P.I. Easy Rawlins, Los Angeles's mean streets were never meaner...or more...
1964: Easy has given up the street life and has taken on a job as a supervising custodian at Sojourner Truth High School. But his newly found carefree lifestyle is threatened when two corpses are discovered at the school and the police think Easy is involved.
1964: Easy has given up the street life and has taken on a job as a supervising custodian at Sojourner Truth High School. But his newly found carefree...