A Little Yellow Dog: An Easy Rawlins Mystery ***AUTHOR SIGNED***

Mosley, Walter

ISBN 10: 0393039242 / ISBN 13: 9780393039245

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 1996

About this Item

AUTHOR SIGNATURE ONLY ON SPECIAL PUBLISHER'S TIPPED-IN PAGE. Stated first edition with complete number line beginning with "1". Mylar protected dust jacket is clean and bright with mild shelf wear. No tears, creases or stains. Boards are clean, spine is tight and corners are square. Light bumping to lower corners and spine ends. Text is clean and unmarked. Not price clipped remaindered or library withdrawn. Shipped padded in a box with tracking number provided on domestic shipping.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Little Yellow Dog: An Easy Rawlins Mystery ***AUTHOR SIGNED***
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393039242
• ISBN 13: 9780393039245
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction, first edition, first printing
  • Signed

About this title

Synopsis

The eagerly awaited new easy Rawlins novel by Walter Mosley--the most acclaimed mystery writer of the nineties and a major presence in American literature.

With each succeeding mystery featuring his reluctant detective (and natural-born existentialist) Easy Rawlins, Walter Mosley gains new fans and builds on what is now recognized as a permanent addition to American crime writing. His current book is A Little Yellow Dog--another instant classic of suspense, style, and shrewd social observation.

It's 1964. Easy Rawlins has given up the street life that has brought him so much trouble and grief. He's taken on a job as supervising custodian of Sojourner Truth Junior High School in Watts. For two years he's been getting up early and going off to work. He wears nice clothes and puts all his energy-and love-into his job and his adopted children. Easy likes his new life, even though he feels empty and a little bored sometimes. But all that is about to change.

Easy comes in early one morning to find one of the teachers already in her classroom. She has a dog with her and a story about a husband gone mad. Before Easy knows what's happening, the teacher is in his arms. Before the day is over the teacher is gone, leaving Easy with her dog, and the handsomest corpse Easy has ever seen is found in the school garden. That night a second corpse turns up.

Easy may have left the streets but he hasn't been forgotten. The world is changing faster than he can keep up. The police believe that Easy is involved in the murders. Old enemies are waiting to get even. The principal of the school wants to fire him. His old friends aren't the same and his new friends might be his death. Easy wants back into his careful little life, but that door is closed. A murderer is running loose somewhere. And a little yellow dog plots revenge.

About the Author

Walter Mosley is the author of four previous mystery novels in the Easy Rawlins series: Devil in a Blue Dress (basis for the acclaimed film starring Denzel Washington), A Red Death, White Butterfly, and Black Betty, a New York Times bestseller. In August 1995 he published his first non-genre novel, RL's Dream, to widespread praise. Mosley is the current president of the Mystery Writers of America, a member of the executive board of the PEN American Center and founder of its Open Book Committee, and is on the board of directors of the National Book Awards. His novels are now published in eighteen countries. He is at work on a book featuring a new character, a philosophical and tough ex-convict named Socrates Fortlow; sections have already appeared in Esquire and GQ. A native of Los Angeles, Mosley lives in New York City.