An edition of A red death (1991)

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A red death
Walter Mosley
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An edition of A red death (1991)

A red death

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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. 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....

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Serpent's Tail
Language
English
Pages
288

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Subjects
Fiction, Private investigators, African American men, Easy Rawlins (Fictitious character), Literary, Mystery & Detective, California, fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Rawlins, easy (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, African americans, fiction, Large type books, African American businesspeople, Fiction, thrillers, general
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Easy Rawlins
Places
Los Angeles (Calif.), California, Los Angeles, Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Times
1953

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A red death
2007, W.F. Howes
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Muerte Escarlata
June 30, 2005, Roca Editorial
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A Red Death
May 19, 2004, Serpent's Tail
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A red death: an Easy Rawlins mystery
2002, Washington Square Press
in English
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A red death
1997, Pocket Books
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A red death
1992, Serpent's Tail
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Originally published: New York: W.W. Norton, 1991.

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London
Series
Mask noir

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Dewey Decimal Class
813.54

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Pagination
(288)p. ;
Number of pages
288

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OL17265586M
ISBN 10
185242236X
Library Thing
167945
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1059355

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