Walter Mosley

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

Trying to locate a family friend who has become involved with a radical resistance group, Easy Rawlins stumbles onto a murder scene only to be named a suspect, and he finds himself exploring a world of betrayal, trying to stay alive. 275,000 first printing.

Bad Boy Brawly Brown

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

An inspirational guide from the aspiring writer by bestselling author Walter Mosley

This Year You Write Your Novel

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Oklahoma

"Easy Rawlins returns to solve a mystery set amid the flames of the hottest summer L.A. has ever seen." "Just after devastating riots tear through Los Angeles in 1965 - when anger is high and fear still smolders everywhere - the police turn up at Easy Rawlins's doorstep. He expects the worst, as usual. But they've come to ask for his help." "A man was wrenched from his car by a mob at the riots' peak and escaped into a nearby apartment building. Soon afterward, a redheaded woman known as Little Scarlet was found dead in that building - and the fleeing man is the obvious suspect. But the man has vanished." "The police fear that their presence in certain neighborhoods could spark a new inferno, so they ask Easy Rawlins to see what he can discover. The vanished man is the key, but he is only the beginning. Easy enlists the help of his longtime friend Mouse to break through the shroud. And what Easy finds is a killer whose rage, like that which burned in the city for weeks, is intrinsically woven around deep-set passions - feelings echoed within Easy himself." "Rawlins's hunt for the killer reveals a new city emerging from the ashes, with the promise of a new life for Easy, Mouse, and his old friends Jackson Blue and Jewelle."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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West Virginia

The "New York Times" bestselling author of "Blue Light" returns to the realm of science fiction. Errol is awakened by a strange prank caller claiming to be his father, who has been dead for several years. Curious, and not a little unnerved, Errol sneaks into the graveyard where his father is buried. What he finds will change his life forever.

The Wave

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Leonid is a private investigator. He is given the opportunity to do a simple favor, while shocking,  it is impossible to resist. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Maryland

Morally ambiguous P.I. Leonid McGill is back -- and investigating crimes against society's most downtrodden -- in this installment of the beloved detective series from an Edgar Award-winning and bestselling crime novelist. Leonid McGill's spent a lifetime building up his reputation in the New York investigative scene. His seemingly infallible instinct and inside knowledge of the crime world make him the ideal man to help when Phillip Worry comes knocking. Phillip "Catfish" Worry is a 92-year-old Mississippi bluesman who needs Leonid's help with a simple task: deliver a letter revealing the black lineage of a wealthy heiress and her corrupt father. Unsurprisingly, the opportunity to do a simple favor while shocking the prevailing elite is too much for Leonid to resist. But when a famed and feared assassin puts a hit on Catfish, Leonid has no choice but to confront the ghost of his own felonious past. Working to protect his client and his own family, Leonid must reach the heiress on the eve of her wedding before her powerful father kills those who hold their family's secret. Joined by a team of young and tough aspiring investigators, Leonid must gain the trust of wary socialites, outsmart vengeful thugs, and, above all, serve the truth -- no matter the cost.

Trouble Is What I Do

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A brilliant new mystery in the highly acclaimed Easy Rawlins series. In 1961 L.A., Easy is tracking down Elizabeth Eady, a.k.a. "Black Betty"--a stunning beauty with mayhem in her wake. Easy's search takes readers deep into America's racial dilemmas and the mysteries of human character.

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Nine Stories of an Imminent World

Offers nine stories of speculative fiction, creating worlds inhabited by leaders, commoners, technocrats, criminals, and revolutionaries, covering issues including social stratification, technological advances, and civil rights.

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Wisconsin

Fear of the Dark

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Hard cover in excellent/like new condition (never read) dust jacket shows some wear from shelving (including a small tear on bottom front mid dust jacket and top spine-see photos)

Struggling with economic setbacks, family conflicts and his best friend's cancer diagnosis, private investigator Leonid McGill takes the case of a beautiful young artist who spins a dubious tale about her reluctant marriage and threats on her life.

When the Thrill Is Gone

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The first of Mosley's Easy Rawlins books - fun and fast-paced read.

Colorado

This richly atmospheric (Los Angeles Times Book Review) novel--winner of the 1990 Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel from the Private Eye Writers of America--is now a major motion picture from TriStar, starring Denzel Washington as resourceful detective Easy Rawlins.

Devil in a Blue Dress

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North Carolina

The First Leonid Mcgill Mystery

Getting by as an old-school private investigator in spite of Manhattan's increasingly sophisticated culture, Leonid McGill finds his commitment to living a straight-and-narrow life repeatedly tested when he attempts to obtain seemingly harmless information for a high-paying client. Reprint. A best-selling novel.

The Long Fall

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All he has to do is find the girl in the picture. Easy money. But now that he's found her- he's about to lose his life. 

Iowa

Easy Rawlins tries to save an old friend's stepson, Brawly Brown, from the political group he joined in Compton.

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Michigan

From the best-selling author of A Little Yellow Dog -- the eagerly awaited debut of Socrates Fortlow, a bold and original new hero.Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned introduces Walter Mosley's most compelling new character since the debut of his immortal detective Easy Rawlins: one Socrates Fortlow, a tough, brooding ex-convict determined to challenge and understand the violence and anarchy in his world -- and in himself.Three decades ago, the young Socrates had, in a burst of drunken rage, murdered a man and a woman with his huge rock-breaking hands. Twenty-seven years of hard time in an Indiana prison followed. Now Socrates lives in a cramped, two-room apartment in an abandoned building in Watts, scavenging bottles and delivering groceries for a supermarket. In each of the stories that comprise this richly brooding novel, Socrates Fortlow, like his namesake, explores philosophical questions of morality in a world beset with crime, poverty, and racism. He is an unforgettable presence and his perceptions cast a glow of somber lyricism upon an often harsh world. Socrates is a creation of stunning originality; the book he inhabits is Walter Mosley's most powerful and eloquent to date.

Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned

An Easy Rawlins Novel

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 time is 1948, the town is Los Angeles, and black veteran Easy Rawlins has just been fired from his job. With his mortgage payment is jeopardy, Easy accepts a job tracking down a blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs. Richly atmospheric.--Los Angeles Times Book Review.

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Morally ambiguous P.I. Leonid McGill is back -- and investigating crimes against society's most downtrodden -- in this installment of the beloved detective series from an Edgar Award-winning and bestselling crime novelist.


Leonid McGill's spent a lifetime building up his reputation in the New York investigative scene. His seemingly infallible instinct and inside knowledge of the crime world make him the ideal man to help when Phillip Worry comes knocking.


Phillip "Catfish" Worry is a 92-year-old Mississippi bluesman who needs Leonid's help with a simple task: deliver a letter revealing the black lineage of a wealthy heiress and her corrupt father. Unsurprisingly, the opportunity to do a simple favor while shocking the prevailing elite is too much for Leonid to resist.


But when a famed and feared assassin puts a hit on Catfish, Leonid has no choice but to confront the ghost of his own felonious past. Working to protect his client and his own family, Leonid must reach the heiress on the eve of her wedding before her powerful father kills those who hold their family's secret.


Joined by a team of young and tough aspiring investigators, Leonid must gain the trust of wary socialites, outsmart vengeful thugs, and, above all, serve the truth -- no matter the cost.



The Further Philosophical Investigations of Socrates Fortlow

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. Now freed after serving twenty-seven years in prison, he is filled with profound guilt about his own crimes and disheartened by the chaos of the streets. Along with his gambler friend Billy Psalms, Socrates calls together local people of all races from their different social stations--lawyers, gangsters, preachers, Buddhists, businessmen--to conduct meetings of a Thinkers' Club, where all can discuss the unanswerable questions in life.

The street philosopher enjoins his friends to explore--even in the knowledge that there's nothing that they personally can do to change the ways of the world--what might be done anyway, what it would take to change themselves. Infiltrated by undercover cops, and threatened by strain from within, tensions rise as hot-blooded gangsters and respectable deacons fight over issues of personal and social responsibility. But simply by asking questions about racial authenticity, street justice, infidelity, poverty, and the possibility of mutual understanding, Socrates and his unlikely crew actually begin to make a difference.

In turns outraged and affectionate,The Right Mistake offers a profoundly literary and ultimately redemptive exploration of the possibility of moral action in a violent and fallen world.

The Right Mistake

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Missouri

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It's 1966, and Easy Rawlins is desperate for cash to pay for his daughter's much-needed medical treatment. Easy gets a gig working for a legendary private eye on a missing person case. Soon, Easy's search uncovers a shocking crime in Mosley's latest sizzling "New York Times" bestseller.

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