MOSLEY, WALTER — Black Betty

New York: W. W. Norton, 1994. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0393036448. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. This is an Easy Rawlins Mystery. "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 two hundred dollars from the oily white private eye Saul Lynx to track down one Elizabeth Eady, aka Black Betty." "Walter Ellis Mosley (born January 12, 1952) is an American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction. He has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries featuring the hard-boiled detective Easy Rawlins, a black private investigator and World War II veteran living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles; they are perhaps his most popular works.". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .