An edition of A red death (1991)

A red death

an Easy Rawlins mystery

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An edition of A red death (1991)

A red death

an Easy Rawlins mystery

by

  • ★★★★ 4.00 ·
  • 2 Ratings
  • 18 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 5 Have read

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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Publisher
Washington Square Press
Language
English
Pages
312

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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
People
Easy Rawlins
Places
Los Angeles (Calif.), California, Los Angeles, Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Times
1953

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Cover of: A red death
A red death
2007, W.F. Howes
in English - Large print ed.
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Muerte Escarlata
June 30, 2005, Roca Editorial
Hardcover in Spanish - Tra edition
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A Red Death
May 19, 2004, Serpent's Tail
Paperback
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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
in English
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New York

Edition Notes

"Featuring an original Easy Rawlins short story, 'Silver lining'"--Cover.
Short story is incomplete.

Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3563.O88456 R44 2002, PS3563.O88456R44

The Physical Object

Pagination
312 p. ;
Number of pages
312

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3699724M
Internet Archive
reddeatheasyrawl0000mosl
ISBN 10
0743451767
LCCN
2003265081
Library Thing
167945
Goodreads
976339

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