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Little Scarlet [sound recording] / Walter Mosley.

by Mosley, Walter.

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Time Warner AudioBooks, p2004.

COMPACT DISC FICTION MOS

School custodians -- Fiction.

Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965 -- Fiction.

Private investigators -- California -- Fiction.

Private investigators, Black -- Fiction.

Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction.

Mosley, Walter. Easy Rawlins mysteries ; 9.

[sound recording] /

7 compact sound discs (7:30 hrs.) : Dolby digital ; 12 cm.

Read by Michael Boatman.

Here it's the last days of the Watts riots in 1966, and a black woman, nicknamed Little Scarlet, has been found murdered in her apartment, the same building that an unidentified white man appeared to enter after escaping a mob of rioters. Did the white man commit the murder? The LAPD wants answers quickly, which is why Rawlins is asked to investigate. As has been the case throughout this series, the mystery at hand serves as a window opening on a historical moment. As Easy investigates, he finds himself forced to make sense of his own contrary feelings about the riots--his sadness at the loss of life and property in his community set against his recognition of inevitability, of the fact that the riots were expressing out in the open the anger every black man and woman had been forced to hide: "Now it's said and nothing will ever be the same. That's good for us, no matter what we lost. And it could be good for white people, too."

Mystery fiction.

Adult books on CD.

Boatman, Michael, 1964-

Time Warner AudioBooks (Firm)

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