Easy Rawlins comes home from work and finds more trouble on his doorstep than most men encounter in a lifetime. A friend, fearing for his life, has left his daughter at Easy's house and vanished without a trace. When someone else important to him also disappears, Easy strikes out on his own to find his friends.
Easy Rawlins comes home from work and finds more trouble on his doorstep than most men encounter in a lifetime. A friend, fearing for his life, has le...
Living in south central L.A., Socrates Fortlow is a sixty-year-old ex-convict still strong enough to kill men with his bare hands. Filled with profound guilt about his own crimes and disheartened by the chaos of the streets, Socrates calls together local people of all races and social stations and begins to conduct a Thinkers' Club, where all can discuss life's unanswerable questions.
Infiltrated by undercover cops and threatened by strain from within, the Thinkers' Club doesn't have it easy. But simply by debating racial authenticity, street justice, and the possibility of mutual...
Living in south central L.A., Socrates Fortlow is a sixty-year-old ex-convict still strong enough to kill men with his bare hands. Filled with profoun...
From the acclaimed bestselling author of the Easy Rawlins series who has been 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. Tempest Landry is neither a good nor a bad man, but an average man trying to survive. Sure, he stole money from his mother's church, but he used it to pay for his aunt's groceries while she was recovering from pneumonia. And yes, Tiny Henderson went to jail because of...
From the acclaimed bestselling author of the Easy Rawlins series who has been deemed "one of America's best mystery writers" (...
"The newest of the great fictional detectives" (Boston Globe) from the New York Times bestselling author of the Easy Rawlins novels. When New York private eye Leonid McGill is hired to check up on a vulnerable young woman, all he discovers is a bloody crime scene-and the woman gone missing. His client doesn't want her found. The reason will put everything McGill cherishes in harm's way: his family, his friends, and his very soul.
"The newest of the great fictional detectives" (Boston Globe) from the New York Times bestselling author of the Easy Rawlins novels. ...
Combining the personal with the political, bestselling writer Mosley draws from his own addictions to explore the forms that oppression takes in people's everyday lives.
Combining the personal with the political, bestselling writer Mosley draws from his own addictions to explore the forms that oppression takes in peopl...
A hip and inventive new play by Walter Mosley, best-selling author of more than 25 books and most widely known for his popular Easy Rawlins mysteries, including "Devil in a Blue Dress." Tempest Landry, a street-wise young man living in Harlem, unexpectedly finds himself at the Pearly Gates. When Saint Peter orders him to hell, the quick-witted Tempest refuses to go. A technical loophole forces heaven to send Tempest back to Earth with an angel in tow to keep him out of trouble. The resulting battle of wills takes an intriguing look at...
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Dramatic comedy
Cahracters: 3 male, 2 female
A hip and inventive new play by Walter Mosley, best-selling author of more than 25 books and m...
The interviews in this collection cover Walter Mosley's career and reveal an overarching theme: a belief in the transformative power of reading and writing. Since the 1990 publication of his first novel, Devil in a Blue Dress, Mosley (b. 1952) has published over thirty books in a tremendous range of genres and modes: crime and detective fiction, science fiction, literary novels of ideas, character studies, political and social nonfiction, erotica, and memoir. Best known for his Easy Rawlins detective series and Socrates Fortlow series of crime novels, Mosley has created a body of...
The interviews in this collection cover Walter Mosley's career and reveal an overarching theme: a belief in the transformative power of reading and...
A major literary event-nothing short of a "tour de force" (New York Times) by the acclaimed and beloved author.
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.
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A major literary event-nothing short of a "tour de force" (New York Times) by the acclaimed and beloved author.
Leonid McGill is back, in the third--and most enthralling and ambitious--installment in Mosley's latest "New York Times"-bestselling series. The economy has hit the private-investigator business hard. So how can McGill say no to the beautiful young woman who walks into his office with a stack of cash?
Leonid McGill is back, in the third--and most enthralling and ambitious--installment in Mosley's latest "New York Times"-bestselling series. The econo...
-It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated, civilized man.- And Hugh Denismore, a young doctor driving his mother's Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged, would seem to have the world at his feet, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him? Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in Arizona a few days later? Dorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond...
-It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated, civilized man.- And Hugh Denismore, a young doctor driving his m...
