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1994 WALTER MOSLEY BLACK BETTY SIGNED 1ST EDITION HC DJ

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Author: Walter MosleyFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co IncEdition: 1
ISBN-10: 0393036448ISBN-13: 9780393036442
Subject: Mystery, ThrillerPublication Year: 1994
Topic: --Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Signed
Language: EnglishCondition: Very Good
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Easy Rawlins is hired to find Black Betty, a vixen from his old Houston neighborhood now living in Beverly Hills. The family Betty works for wants to find her, for what purpose, Easy doesn't know. But $200 is $200, and it doesn't hurt to look. Besides, Easy can never resist a mystery, especially if it looks like trouble.

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Length:255 pages
Height:9.5 in.
Width:6.5 in.
Thickness:0.8 in.
Weight:20.8 oz.

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The New York Times Book Review ended its rave for White Butterfly, the most recent novel in Walter Mosley's acclaimed mystery series, by saying "I can't wait to see where Easy Rawlins turns up next. And when". Black Betty holds the sure-to-be-bestselling answer. The place is Los Angeles. The year is 1961, the dawn of a hopeful era for America's black citizens. Easy Rawlins's quiet real-estate empire is deep in the hole, so he must accept $200 from the oily white private eye Saul Lynx to track down one Elizabeth Eady, aka "Black Betty". From her native Houston's Fifth Ward to her position as housekeeper for the immensely wealthy Cain family of Beverly Hills, Betty's stunning beauty and raw sensuality have left a trail of chaos and mayhem in her wake. To compound Easy's troubles, his murderous sidekick Mouse is due out of jail, and he has bloody revenge on his mind. Entertainment Weekly has said that "(Easy) Rawlins isn't just the best new series detective around, he might be the best American character to appear in quite some time". Easy's murder-strewn search for "Black Betty" takes him into the depths of America's racial dilemmas and the mysteries of human character - and his creator, Walter Mosley, to even greater heights of achievement in the American novel. It is that rare novel that tells a gripping, fast-paced story while it grapples with the biggest questions that haunt American life.

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"[A] compelling, multilayered novel. What counts is the author's unique voice, his presentation of a time and place never visited before, his vivid characterizations, his inflection-perfect dialogue."
Washington Post Book World - Dick Lochte 

"'Black Betty' is Mosley's strongest Rawlins case yet....There's not one false move here. It's all as real and authentic as a low moan in a gut-bucket blues or full-out shout in a Pentecostal church."
Quarterly Black Review of Books - Robert Fleming 

"The writing is so good, and the characters that Mosley is constantly introducing are so interesting that you can't put the book down....His descriptions of the homes of the haves and have-nots of Los Angeles...is as good as you would find in Chandler at his best. And his dialogue is just as good."
Los Angeles Times Book Review - Ernest J. Gaines 

"Mr. Mosley beats hell out of most of today's contenders for consideration as a top-ranking writer in the mystery division....His words prowl around the page before they pounce, knocking you not so much upside the head as around the body where you feel them the longest."
New York Times Book Review - Barry Gifford 

"This is a mystery writer at the top of his form, and his top is about as good as any top still spinning. He's savvy and witty, smart and angry, careful in his construction and hard headed about violence. There is no other American writer who has successfully managed to mold the detective form into a historical serial of this sort, and one can only admire the vision behind the adventure."
San Francisco Chronicle - Paul Skenazy 


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USED, SIGNED 1ST EDITION, HARDCOVER
Walter Mosley
BLACK BETTY
(1994)
    * CONDITION: VERY GOOD. Dust jacket has some very minor smudging and scuffing. Signed by author on third page.
    * FLAWS: Book itself is in very good condition. Pages are very slightly yellowed from age.

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