A Red Death
An Easy Rawlins Novel
Atria Books · Print & ebook · October 1, 2002
A “fascinating and vividly rendered” (The Wall Street Journal) mystery featuring one of crime fiction’s greatest protagonists—private investigator Easy Rawlins—as he agrees to a dangerous surveillance job.
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- Who it’s for
- A 1953 Los Angeles mystery where private investigation meets red-baiting and racial hostility.
- Genres
- Black Mystery, Historical Mystery, Private Eye Fiction
- Published
- Atria Books, October 1, 2002
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A “fascinating and vividly rendered” (The Wall Street Journal) mystery featuring one of crime fiction’s greatest protagonists—private investigator Easy Rawlins—as he agrees to a dangerous surveillance job. It’s 1953 in Red-baiting, blacklisting Los Angeles—a moral tar pit ready to swallow Easy Rawlins. Easy is out of the hurting business and into the housing (and favor) business when a racist IRS agent nails him for tax evasion.
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Special Agent Darryl T. Craxton, FBI, offers to bail him out if he agrees to infiltrate the First American Baptist Church and spy on alleged communist organizer Chaim Wenzler. That’s when the murders begin....
City Under Suspicion
A 1953 Los Angeles mystery where private investigation meets red-baiting and racial hostility.
Come here for
- A private-eye lens on surveillance and political suspicion
Expect
- Tension shaped by racism, blacklisting, and dangerous favors
Where it sits
| Private Eye Fiction | 68% |
|---|---|
| Black Mystery | 61% |
| Historical Mystery | 38% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Literary Fiction
- Mystery
- Black Mystery
- Authors
- Walter Mosley, Michael Boatman, Audible Studios
- Publisher
- Atria Books
- Published
- October 1, 2002
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Literary Fiction