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A Red Death: An Easy Rawlins Mystery

Nailed by a racist IRS agent for tax evasion, Easy Rawlins is asked by the FBI to infiltrate the First African Baptist Church to spy on alleged communist union organizer Chaim Wenzler, but the case soon takes a deadly turn, in a mystery set in 1953 Los Angeles.

By Walter Mosley

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Paperback:

9780743451765 | Washington Square Pr, October 15, 2002, cover price $19.99

CD/Spoken Word:

9781559277198 | Unabridged edition (St Martins Pr, July 1, 2002), cover price $38.00 | About this edition: Nailed by a racist IRS agent for tax evasion, Easy Rawlins is asked by the FBI to infiltrate the First African Baptist Church to spy on alleged communist union organizer Chaim Wenzler, but the case soon takes a deadly turn, in a mystery set in 1953 Los Angeles.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781559272346 | St Martins Pr, July 1, 1993, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In order to avoid a prison sentence for a trumped-up tax evasion charge, Easy Rawlins agrees to infiltrate the First African Baptist Church and spy on alleged communist organizer Chaim Wenzler.

White Butterfly: An Easy Rawlins Mystery

Although little concern is raised by the murder of three black women, the LAPD jumps on the case when the killer's next victim turns out to be Cyndi Starr, a white woman. Book available.

By Walter Mosley

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Paperback:

9780743451772 | Washington Square Pr, October 15, 2002, cover price $16.00

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781559272247 | St Martins Pr, August 1, 1993, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Although little concern is raised by the murder of three black women, the LAPD jumps on the case when the killer's next victim turns out to be Cyndi Starr, a white woman.

Black Betty

In 1931 Los Angeles, detective Easy Rawlins accepts a job searching for a beautiful woman nicknamed 'Black Betty,' who works as a housekeeper in Beverly Hills

By Walter Mosley

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Hardcover:

9780786203239 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, November 1, 1994), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: In 1931 Los Angeles, detective Easy Rawlins accepts a job searching for a beautiful woman nicknamed 'Black Betty,' who works as a housekeeper in Beverly Hills

9780393036442 | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1994, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Detective Easy Rawlins returns in a mystery set in 1961 Los Angeles as Easy accepts a job searching for a beautiful woman nicknamed 'Black Betty,' who works as a housekeeper in Beverly Hills.

Paperback:

9780743451789 | Washington Square Pr, November 5, 2002, cover price $15.00

9780671019839 | Pocket Books, November 1, 1997, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A brilliant new mystery in the highly acclaimed Easy Rawlins series.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781559273022 | St Martins Pr, September 1, 1994, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: 1961: Kennedy is in the White House.

9781559272902 | St Martins Pr, May 1, 1994, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In the Los Angeles of 1931, detective Easy Rawlins accepts a job searching for a beautiful woman nicknamed 'Black Betty,' who works as a housekeeper in Beverly Hills.

Black Betty: An Easy Rawlins Mystery

Reluctant P.I. Easy Rawlins finds that he is unable to refuse a deadly assignment to track down the notorious Black Betty, a beautiful woman whose charms have enabled her to rise to Beverly Hills affluence. Read by Stanley Bennett Clay.

By Walter Mosley

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Paperback:

9780671884277 | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, July 1, 1995), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Reluctant P.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781559277211 | Unabridged edition (St Martins Pr, July 1, 2002), cover price $38.00 | About this edition: Reluctant P.

Rl's Dream: A Novel

Recounting his memories to a young white woman who is also a refugee from a painful Southern past, Soupspoon Wise, a dying blues performer, describes a brief encounter with a famous performer that still haunts him. by the author of Black Betty. Tour.

By Walter Mosley

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Hardcover:

9780393038026 | W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 1995, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Recounting his memories to a young white woman who is also a refugee from a painful Southern past, Soupspoon Wise, a dying blues performer, describes a brief encounter with a famous performer that still haunts him

Rl's Dream

Facing his death in New York City, Soupspoon Wise remembers his years spent beside blues legend Robert 'RL' Johnson and is comforted by alcoholic angel of mercy Kiki Walters, who faithfully records Soupspoon's memories. Reprint.

By Walter Mosley

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Hardcover:

9780786205578, titled "Rl's Dream" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, November 1, 1995), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Recounting his memories to a young white woman who is also a refugee from a painful Southern past, Soupspoon Wise, a dying blues performer, describes a brief encounter with a famous performer that still haunts him

Paperback:

9780671884284, titled "Rl's Dream" | Reprint edition (Washington Square Pr, July 1, 1996), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Facing his death in New York City, Soupspoon Wise remembers his years spent beside blues legend Robert 'RL' Johnson and is comforted by alcoholic angel of mercy Kiki Walters, who faithfully records Soupspoon's memories.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781559273459, titled "Rl's Dream" | Abridged edition (St Martins Pr, August 1, 1995), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A dying blues musician recounts the haunting memory of a brief encounter with a famous performer.

Walter Mosley Prepacked Boxed Set: Devil in a Blue Dress, Red Death, White Butterfly

By Walter Mosley

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Paperback:

9780671906078 | Pocket Books, October 1, 1995, cover price $17.97

La Mariposa Blanca/ White Butterfly

Product Description: Easy Rawlins vuelve a ser el protagonista de un libro de Walter Mosley. En esta ocasion con una vida menos agitada. Esta casado con una mujer a la que ama, tiene una hija de pocos meses y se ha convertido en un padre modelo y en un marido devoto...read more

By Walter Mosley

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9788433906977 | 2 edition (Editorial Anagrama, April 30, 1996), cover price $24.75 | About this edition: Easy Rawlins vuelve a ser el protagonista de un libro de Walter Mosley.

A Little Yellow Dog

In Los Angeles' inner city during the fifties, Easy Rawlins takes a job as head custodian at a junior high school, where old enemies and murder catch up with him

By Walter Mosley

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Paperback:

9780671019860 | Pocket Books, November 1, 1997, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: In Los Angeles' inner city during the fifties, Easy Rawlins takes a job as head custodian at a junior high school, where old enemies and murder catch up with him

9781852423704 | New edition (Gardners Books, September 1, 1996), cover price $16.25 | About this edition: It's 1964, and Easy Rawlins has given up street life, and has a job as a high school janitor.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781559273749 | St Martins Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: As he settles in to his new job as supervising custodian of a Watts high school, Easy Rawlins is inadvertantely drawn into the investigation of a double murder.

The Stolen White Elephant and Other Detective Stories

Product Description: The King of Siam's decision to send the Queen of England a literal white elephant as a gift sets in motion a broad farce targeting the self-proclaimed brilliance of the corrupt and incompetent chief of New York City detectives in Twain's delightfully absurd story, "A Stolen White Elephant...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Shelley Fisher Fishkin (editor), Walter Mosley (introduced by) and Mark Twain

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Hardcover:

9780195101539 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The King of Siam's decision to send the Queen of England a literal white elephant as a gift sets in motion a broad farce targeting the self-proclaimed brilliance of the corrupt and incompetent chief of New York City detectives in Twain's delightfully absurd story, "A Stolen White Elephant.

Gone Fishin

Nineteen-year-old Ezekiel 'Easy' Rawlins and his companion, Raymond 'Mouse' Alexander, embark on a perilous 1939 odyssey that takes them from Houston to a mysterious bayou world of voodoo, sex, revenge, and death

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Hardcover:

9780062075604, titled "Gone Fishin'!" | Harpercollins Childrens Books, April 22, 2014, cover price $16.99

Paperback:

9780671027469, titled "Gone Fishin'" | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, January 1, 1999), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Nineteen-year-old Ezekiel 'Easy' Rawlins and his companion, Raymond 'Mouse' Alexander, embark on a perilous 1939 odyssey that takes them from Houston to a mysterious bayou world of voodoo, sex, revenge, and death

9781852426033 | Serpents Tail, May 1, 1998, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Houston, 1939.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781597771108, titled "Gone Fishin'" | Abridged edition (Phoenix Books Inc, July 1, 2006), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Everything Easy Rawlins and Mouse Alexander ever knew about friendship, and themselves, comes apart at the seams when they enter a steamy bayou world of voodoo, sex, revenge, and death.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781590072035, titled "Gone Fishin'" | Abridged edition (New Millenium Audio, November 1, 2002), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Nineteen-year-old Ezekiel 'Easy' Rawlins and his companion, Raymond 'Mouse' Alexander, embark on a perilous 1939 odyssey that takes them from Houston to a mysterious bayou world of voodoo, sex, revenge, and death.

9780787114022 | Dove Entertainment Inc, January 1, 1997, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Everything Easy Rawlins and Mouse Alexander ever knew about friendship, and themselves, comes apart at the seams when they enter a steamy bayou world of voodoo, sex, revenge, and death.

Gone Fishin: An Easy Rawlins Mystery

By Walter Mosley

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Hardcover:

9780786210602 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, May 1, 1997), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: MysteryLarge Print EditionMosley delivers the goods every time, and Easy fans are going to eat this up .

Paperback:

9780743451758 | Washington Square Pr, September 24, 2002, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Nineteen-year-old Ezekiel 'Easy' Rawlins and his companion, Raymond 'Mouse' Alexander, embark on a perilous 1939 odyssey that takes them from Houston to a mysterious bayou world of voodoo, sex, revenge, and death.

9780671010119 | Pocket Books, February 1, 1998, cover price $6.50 | About this edition: Nineteen-year-old Ezekiel 'Easy' Rawlins and his companion, Raymond 'Mouse' Alexander, embark on a perilous 1939 odyssey that takes them from Houston to a mysterious bayou world of voodoo, sex, revenge, and death

9780786210619 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, May 1, 1997), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: MysteryLarge Print EditionMosley delivers the goods every time, and Easy fans are going to eat this up .

A Red Death

Product Description: Walter Mosley's debut novel, Devil in a Blue Dress, introduced readers to Easy Rawlins. Now an independent operative in Watts, Easy's caught in a crunch between a vengeful IRS agent in search of his cash and an obsessed FBI man in search of Reds (Communist sympathizers)...read more

By Walter Mosley

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Hardcover:

9781560547235 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, September 1, 1993), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: In order to avoid a prison sentence for a trumped-up tax evasion charge, Easy Rawlins agrees to infiltrate the First African Baptist Church and spy on alleged communist organizer Chaim Wenzler

9780393029987, titled "Red Death" | W W Norton & Co Inc, July 1, 1991, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: During the McCarthy era, Easy Rawlins is caught between a vengeful IRS employee and an FBI agent who wants to use him as an undercover operative

Paperback:

9780671019846 | Pocket Books, November 1, 1997, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Walter Mosley's debut novel, Devil in a Blue Dress, introduced readers to Easy Rawlins.

9780671010065 | Reissue edition (Pocket Books, June 1, 1997), cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Nailed by a racist IRS agent for tax evasion, Easy Rawlins is asked by the FBI to infiltrate the First African Baptist Church to spy on alleged communist union organizer Chaim Wenzler, but the case soon takes a deadly turn, in a mystery set in 1953 Los Angeles.

9780671749897 | Reissue edition (Pocket Books, March 1, 1995), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: In order to avoid a prison sentence for a trumped-up tax evasion charge, Easy Rawlins agrees to infiltrate the First African Baptist Church and spy on alleged communist organizer Chaim Wenzler

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781559272704, titled "Red Death" | St Martins Pr, March 1, 1994, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Nailed by a racist IRS agent for tax evasion, Easy Rawlins is asked by the FBI to infiltrate the First African Baptist Church to spy on alleged communist union organizer Chaim Wenzler, but the case soon takes a deadly turn, in a mystery set in 1953 Los Angeles.

Prebinding:

9781417651399, titled "Red Death" | Turtleback Books, June 1, 1997, cover price $12.10 | About this edition: Nailed by a racist IRS agent for tax evasion, Easy Rawlins is asked by the FBI to infiltrate the First African Baptist Church to spy on alleged communist union organizer Chaim Wenzler, but the case soon takes a deadly turn, in a mystery set in 1953 Los Angeles.

A Little Yellow Dog: Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Gray-Eyed Death

By Walter Mosley

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Paperback:

9780743483391 | Pocket Books, July 1, 1997, cover price $6.50

Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned: The Socrates Forllow Stories

After serving twenty-seven years in an Indiana prison for killing two people in a drunken rage, tough, brooding ex-convict Socrates Fortlow lives in a tiny apartment in an abandoned building in Watts, struggling to make sense of the anarchic violence in the world and in himself.

By Walter Mosley and Paul Winfield (narrator)

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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780787116460 | Unabridged edition (Dove Entertainment Inc, October 1, 1997), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: After serving twenty-seven years in an Indiana prison for killing two people in a drunken rage, tough, brooding ex-convict Socrates Fortlow lives in a tiny apartment in an abandoned building in Watts, struggling to make sense of the anarchic violence in the world and in himself.

Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned

Product Description: Volume III of The Princess Diaries A New York Times Bestseller Princess Mia is preparing for her debut in society while avoiding kisses from her boyfriend, Kenny. All she wants is a little peace and quiet...and a certain someone else to be her boyfriend...read more

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Hardcover:

9780786212682 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, February 1, 1998), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: After serving twenty-seven years in an Indiana prison for killing two people in a drunken rage, tough, brooding ex-convict Socrates Fortlow lives in a tiny apartment in an abandoned building in Watts, struggling to make sense of the anarchic violence in the world and in himself

9780393045390 | W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 1997, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: After serving twenty-seven years in an Indiana prison for killing two people in a drunken rage, tough, brooding ex-convict Socrates Fortlow lives in a tiny apartment in an abandoned building in Watts, struggling to make sense of the anarchic violence in the world and in himself

Paperback:

9780060525682, titled "Princess in Love" | Reprint edition (Trophy Pr, September 1, 2002), cover price $5.99 | also contains Princess in Love | About this edition: Volume III of The Princess Diaries A New York Times Bestseller Princess Mia is preparing for her debut in society while avoiding kisses from her boyfriend, Kenny.

9780671014995 | Washington Square Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: After serving twenty-seven years in an Indiana prison for killing two people in a drunken rage, tough, brooding ex-convict Socrates Fortlow lives in a tiny apartment in an abandoned building in Watts, struggling to make sense of the anarchic violence in the world and in himself

9781852427023 | New edition (Gardners Books, June 1, 1998), cover price $12.35 | About this edition: Socrates Fortlow has spent 27 years inside and can kill a man with his bare hands.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781590072028 | Unabridged edition (New Millenium Audio, September 1, 2002), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: After serving twenty-seven years in an Indiana prison for killing two people in a drunken rage, tough, brooding ex-convict Socrates Fortlow lives in a tiny apartment in an abandoned building in Watts, struggling to make sense of the anarchic violence in the world and in himself.

Blue Light

When several people are struck by a blue light, they evolve into a superhuman race that tries to spread its message of evolution and higher purpose to the rest of the world, in a speculative novel about the ultimate purpose of the human race

By Walter Mosley

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Hardcover:

9781568956398 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, March 1, 1999), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: When several people are struck by a blue light, they evolve into a superhuman race that tries to spread its message of evolution and higher purpose to the rest of the world, in a speculative novel about the ultimate purpose of the human race

9780316570985 | Little Brown & Co, October 1, 1998, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: When several people are struck by a blue light, they evolve into a superhuman race that tries to spread its message of evolution and higher purpose to the rest of the world, in a speculative novel about the ultimate purpose of the human race

Paperback:

9780446606929 | Aspect, November 1, 1999, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: When several people are struck by a blue light, they evolve into a superhuman race that tries to spread its message of evolution and higher purpose to the rest of the world, in a speculative novel about the ultimate purpose of the human race

9781852426118 | Serpents Tail, May 1, 1999, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: In San Francisco in the mid 1960s, a cosmic blue light strikes people in its path, quickening their DNA, and greatly enhancing their strengths and understanding.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781570426322 | Unabridged edition (Hachette Audio, November 1, 1998), cover price $17.98 | About this edition: When several people are struck by a blue light, they evolve into a superhuman race that tries to spread its message of evolution and higher purpose to the rest of the world, in a speculative novel about the ultimate purpose of the human race.

Prebinding:

9780613212359 | Turtleback Books, May 1, 2000, cover price $17.25 | About this edition: When several people are struck by a blue light, they evolve into a superhuman race that tries to spread its message of evolution and higher purpose to the rest of the world, in a speculative novel about the ultimate purpose of the human race

Workin' on the Chain Gang: Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History

Applies the lessons of African American history to contemporary America

By Walter Mosley

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Hardcover:

9780345430694 | 1 edition (Ballantine Books, January 1, 2000), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Applies the lessons of African American history to contemporary America

Paperback:

9780472031986 | Univ of Michigan Pr, December 27, 2006, cover price $17.95

Working on the Chain Gang: Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History

Applies the lessons of African American history to contemporary America.

By Ernie Hudson (narrator) and Walter Mosley

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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780787118853 | Unabridged edition (Dove Entertainment Inc, January 1, 2000), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Applies the lessons of African American history to contemporary America.

Black Genius: African American Solutions to African American Problems

With contributions by thirteen leading African American voicesfrom Spike Lee to Joycelyn Eldersthis collection of practical solutions to pressing problems plumbs the African American community for advice on how to fix problems in the black community. Reprint.

By Regina Austin (editor), Manthia Diawara (editor), Walter Mosley (editor) and Clyde Taylor (editor)

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Paperback:

9780393319781 | W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Explores political, financial, social and educational issues in relation to African Americans

Walking the Dog

By Walter Mosley

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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780736647793 | Unabridged edition (Books on Tape, August 1, 2000), cover price $48.00

Whispers in the Dark

By Walter Mosley

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Miscellaneous:

9780759560437 | Grand Central Pub, December 1, 2000, cover price $6.99

9780759522251 | Grand Central Pub, December 1, 2000, cover price $6.99

The Greatest

By Walter Mosley

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Miscellaneous:

9780759560512 | Grand Central Pub, December 15, 2000, cover price $6.99

9780759521834 | Grand Central Pub, December 15, 2000, cover price $6.99

Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins Mysteries: A Red Death/Devil in a Blue Dress/White Butterfly/Black Betty/a Little Yellow Dog

Product Description: The Easy Rawlins series together for the first time in a 5-title gift set!The five most popular works by the foremost mystery-writer of the nineties, Walter Mosley, have been collected into a special slip-sleeve audio packageWalter Mosleyâs reluctant and existentially minded black detective, Easy Rawlins, has brought Mosley bestseller status and the type of mainstream literary acclaim usually denied writers of mystery thrillers...read more

By Walter Mosley and Paul Winfield (narrator)

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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781559276283 | Abridged edition (St Martins Pr, February 1, 2001), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: The Easy Rawlins series together for the first time in a 5-title gift set!

Fearless Jones

Walter Mosley, "one of crime fiction's brightest stars" (People), returns to mysteries at last-with a dazzling new thriller set in the deadly back alleys of 1950s L.A.... Bookshop owner Paris Minton is minding his own business when a brief encounter with a beautiful stranger gets him beaten, shot at, robbed, and then burned out of store and home. Paris needs help but his secret weapon-brave, reckless WWII hero Fearless Jones-is in jail. Vowing to dish out some heavy justice, Paris plots to get Jones back on the street. But when these two men come together, they'll find themselves trapped in a bewildering vortex of sex, money, and murder-and a dicey endgame that's littered with dangerous players...

By Walter Mosley

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Hardcover:

9781587240508 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, July 1, 2001), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Walter Mosley, "one of crime fiction's brightest stars" (People), returns to mysteries at last-with a dazzling new thriller set in the deadly back alleys of 1950s L.

9780316592383 | Little Brown & Co, June 1, 2001, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: In a mystery set in 1950s Los Angeles, small-time used bookstore owner Paris Minton enlists the aid of his friend, Fearless Jones, to uncover the identity of a mysterious and beautiful woman who seems to be linked to a series of bizarre attacks against Minton.

Miscellaneous:

9780759524675 | Little Brown & Co, June 5, 2001, cover price $7.99

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780792724988 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, October 1, 2001), cover price $54.95

9781586210632 | Abridged edition (Hachette Audio, June 1, 2001), cover price $24.98 | About this edition: In a mystery set in 1950s Los Angeles, small-time used bookstore owner Paris Minton enlists the aid of his friend, Fearless Jones, to uncover the identity of a mysterious and beautiful woman who seems to be linked to a series of bizarre attacks against Minton.

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