An edition of White Butterfly (Easy Rawlins Mysteries) (1992)

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An edition of White Butterfly (Easy Rawlins Mysteries) (1992)

White butterfly

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  • ★★★★ 4.3 (3 ratings)
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  • 4 Have read

The time is 1956 and, things being what they are, no one in official Los Angeles is much bothered as a serial killer proceeds to murder three black bar girls, leaving a distinctive mark each time. But when a white stripper, Cyndi Starr, aka "The White Butterfly" on stage, is similarly murdered - and she turns out to be a UCLA coed and the daughter of a politically powerful prosecutor - all hell breaks loose. The heat is finally on to find the killer.

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Norton
Language
English
Pages
272

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Easy Rawlins (Fictitious character) Detectives Fiction Detective and mystery stories Private investigators African American men Literary Mystery & Detective Rawlins, easy (fictitious character), fiction California, fiction Los angeles (calif.), fiction Fiction, mystery & detective, general African americans, fiction Large type books Rawlins, Easy (Fictitious character) -- Fiction Rawlins, Easy (Fictitious character) Private investigators -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction African American men -- Fiction Novela norteamericana -- s. XX-XXI Détectives -- Californie -- Los Angeles -- Romans, nouvelles, etc Hommes noirs américains -- Romans, nouvelles, etc Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction California -- Los Angeles

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Easy Rawlins

Places

Los Angeles (Calif.) California Los Angeles

Times

1956

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WHITE BUTTERFLY (Easy Rawlins Mysteries
November 1, 1997, Washington Square Press
Paperback in English
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La mariposa blanca
April 15, 1996, Editorial Anagrama
Paperback in Spanish - Segunda edition
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Papillon blanc: roman
1995, A. Michel
in French
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White butterfly
1993, Thorndike Press
in English
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White Butterfly (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)
July 1, 1993, Pocket
Paperback in English
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White butterfly
1993, Pocket Books
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White butterfly
1992, Norton
in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3563.O88456 W47 1992, PS3568.O243

The Physical Object

Pagination
272 p. ;
Number of pages
272

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL1563180M
ISBN 10
039303366X
LCCN
91044700
OCLC/WorldCat
24954535, 52898762
LibraryThing
41939
Goodreads
842787

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL115540W

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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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