Black betty: an easy rawlins novel - walter mosley

Easy Rawlins search for a stunning beauty takes him into Americas racial dilemmas of the early 60s and the mysteries of the human character.

1961: For most black Americans, these were times of hope.

For former P.

Easy Rawlins, Los Angeless mean streets were never meaner.

or more deadly.

Ordinarily, Easy would have thrown the two bills in the sleazy shamus face -- the white man who wanted him to find the notorious Black Betty, an ebony siren whose talent for all things rich and male took her from Houstons Fifth Ward to Beverly Hills.

There was too much Easy wasnt being told, but he couldnt resist the prospect of seeing Betty again, even if it killed him.