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Product Details
Washington Square Press, October 2002
Trade Paperback, 320 pages
ISBN-10: 0743451775
ISBN-13: 9780743451772
Description
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 worth a precinct full of detectives when the cops needed the word in the ghetto." But Easy turns them down. He's married now, a father -- and his detective days are over. Then a white college coed dies the same brutal death, and the cops put the heat on Easy: If he doesn't help, his best friend is headed for jail. So Easy's back, walking the midnight streets of Watts and the darker, twisted avenues of a cunning killer's mind....
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Browse Inside White ButterflySan Francisco Chronicle
Wonderful page-turning excitement....Like Sue Grafton, Sara Paretsky, and others, Mosley has been reconstructing the hard-boiled tradition from the bottom up....Easy Rawlins moves through mean streets even Marlowe wouldn't walk.
The New York Times Book Review
With White Butterfly, Walter Mosley has established himself as one of America's best mystery writers.
The Politico, May 30, 2009
...some copies fly off the shelves. Bill Clinton, a fan of murder mysteries, helped increase the popularity of Walter Mosley, when he was reading his book 'White Butterfly.' In an interview with USA Today, Mosley acknowledged that Clinton ...
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