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Walter Mosley

Walter Mosley is the author of five Easy Rawlins mysteries: Devil in A Blue Dress, A Red Death, White Butterfly, Black Betty and A Little Yellow Dog; three non-mystery novels, Blue Light, Gone Fishin', and R. L.'s Dream; two collections of stories featuring Socrates Fortlow, Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, for which he received the Anisfield Wolf Award, and which was an HBO movie, and a nonfiction book, Workin' On The Chain Gang. He is a former president of the Mystery Writers of America, a founder of the PEN American Center Open Book Committee, and is on the board of directors of the National Book Awards. A native of Los Angeles, he now lives in New York City.

Walter Mosley's Books

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The Tempest Tales A Novel-in-Stories By: Walter Mosley
This edition: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publication date: June 9, 2009
Mistaken for another man, wily Tempest is "accidentally" shot by police. Sent to receive the judgment of heaven he discovers that his sins, according to St. Peter, condemn him to hell. Tempest takes exception to the saint's...
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Six Easy Pieces
Six Easy Pieces Easy Rawlins Stories By: Walter Mosley
This edition: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publication date: September 30, 2003
Easy should be living a contented life, with steady work as senior head custodian of Sojourner Truth High School, and a loving family. But happiness is as elusive for Easy as smoke in shadows. Easy's the man folks seek out...
Other Formats: eBook
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Black Betty
Black Betty Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Gator Green" By: Walter Mosley
This edition: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publication date: November 5, 2002
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'...
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A Little Yellow Dog Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Gray-Eyed Death" By: Walter Mosley
This edition: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publication date: November 5, 2002
November 1963: Easy's settled into a steady gig as a school custodian. It's a quiet, simple existence -- but a few moments of ecstasy with a sexy teacher will change all that. When the lady vanishes, Easy's stuck with a...
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White Butterfly Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Lavender" By: Walter Mosley
This edition: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publication date: October 15, 2002
The police don't show up on Easy Rawlins's doorstep until the third girl dies. It's Los Angeles, 1956, and it takes more than one murdered black girl before the cops get interested. Now they need Easy. As he says: "I was...
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Red Death Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Silver Lining" By: Walter Mosley
This edition: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publication date: October 15, 2002
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...
Other Formats: eBook
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Gone Fishin' By: Walter Mosley
This edition: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publication date: September 24, 2002
In the beginning...there was Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins and Raymond "Mouse" Alexander -- two young men setting out in life, hitting the road in a "borrowed" '36 Ford headed for Pariah, Texas. The volatile Mouse wants to retrieve...
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Devil in a Blue Dress By: Walter Mosley
This edition: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publication date: September 24, 2002
Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is 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...
Other Formats: eBook
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Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned By: Walter Mosley
This edition: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publication date: October 1, 1998
New York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley introduces an "astonishing character" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) in this acclaimed collection of entwined tales. Meet Socrates Fortlow, a tough ex-con seeking truth and...
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The Plot Thickens By: Mary Higgins Clark, Lawrence Block, Edna Buchanan, Carol Higgins Clark, Lauren Demille, Nelson Demille, Janet Evanovich, Linda Fairstein, Walter Mosley, Nancy Pickard, Ann Rule and Donald E. Westlake
Introduction by: Liz Smith
This edition: Mass Market Paperback, 272 pages
Publication date: November 1, 1997
Joining together for a good cause brings out the best in today's top mystery and suspense writers! For this marvelously entertaining anthology, these outstanding contributors rose to a unique literary challenge: each penned a...