Mosley, Walter

Blonde faith by Walter Mosley( Book )
27 editions published between 2007 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 2,166 libraries worldwide
Easy Rawlins comes home from work and finds more trouble on his doorstep in a day than most men encounter in a lifetime. A friend has left his daughter at Easy's house without so much as a note. Clearly this friend, Christmas Black, fears for his life and his daughter's. Easy's closest friend, the man known as Mouse, has disappeared too. Worst of all, Easy's lontgime lover tells him that she plans to marry another man. In a world of hurt, Easy strikes out on his own to try to find one friend, save another, and save himself from the pain that is driving him out of his mind.

Fear itself : a novel by Walter Mosley( Book )
28 editions published between 2003 and 2009 in English and held by 2,150 libraries worldwide
Knowing a missing man to be innocent of the murder charge levied against him, Paris Minton hires former sheriff Jefferson Hill to investigate, but when the sheriff goes missing as well, Minton enlists Fearless Jones for the case.

Fear of the dark : a novel by Walter Mosley( Book )
24 editions published between 2006 and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,117 libraries worldwide
"I'm in trouble, Paris." Paris Minton has heard these words before. They mean only one thing: that his neck is on the line too. So when they are uttered by his low-life cousin Ulysses S. Grant, Paris keeps the door firmly closed. With family like Ulysses - "Useless" to everyone except his mother - who needs enemies?" "But trouble always finds an open window, and when Useless's mother, Three Hearts, shows up from Louisiana to look for her son, Paris has no choice but to track down his wayward cousin." "Finding a con artist like Useless is easier said than done. But with the aid of his ear-to-the-ground friend Fearless Jones, Paris gets a hint that Useless may have expanded his range of enterprise to include blackmail. Now he has disappeared, and Paris's mission is to discover whether he is hiding from his vengeful victims - or already dead."

Gone fishin' : an Easy Rawlins novel by Walter Mosley( Book )
50 editions published between 1996 and 2008 in 5 languages and held by 2,107 libraries worldwide
A novel exploring the early years of Easy Rawlins and Mouse Alexander, protagonists in a current black PI series. The setting is Texas, the time the 1930s, and the two embark on a car ride which will engulf them in the bayou world of voodoo, sex and murder.

The long fall by Walter Mosley( Book )
25 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,058 libraries worldwide
Leonid McGill, a New York City private detective, tries to put his past life behind him, to go "from crooked to slightly bent." But it's not that easy when someone like Tony "The Suit" Towers expects you to do a job; when an Albany PI hires you to track down four men known only by their youthful street names; and when your 16-year-old son, Twill, is getting in over his head with a suicidal girl.

Devil in a blue dress by Walter Mosley( Book )
78 editions published between 1990 and 2010 in 11 languages and held by 2,013 libraries worldwide
Private detective Easy Rawlins looks for a gangster's girlfriend in 1940s L.A.

White butterfly by Walter Mosley( Book )
45 editions published between 1992 and 2007 in 9 languages and held by 1,936 libraries worldwide
In White Butterfly, the time is 1956 and, things being what they are, no one in official Los Angeles is much bothered as a serial killer proceeds to murder three black bar girls, leaving a distinctive mark each time. But when a white stripper, Cyndi Starr, aka "The White Butterfly" on stage, is similarly murdered - and she turns out to be a UCLA coed and the daughter of a politically powerful prosecutor - all hell breaks loose. The heat is finally on to find the killer.

A red death by Walter Mosley( Book )
47 editions published between 1991 and 2007 in 8 languages and held by 1,829 libraries worldwide
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.

The last days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley( Book )
12 editions published between 2010 and 2011 in English and held by 1,774 libraries worldwide
Ptolemy Grey is a 91-year-old man, suffering from dementia and living as a recluse in his Los Angeles apartment. Then Robyn Small, a 17-year-old family friend, appears and helps clean up his apartment and straighten out his life. A reinvigorated Ptolemy volunteers for an experimental medical program that restores his mind, and he uses his last days--shortened now by the medical experiment--to delve into the mystery of the recent drive-by shooting death of his great-nephew, Reggie.

Known to evil by Walter Mosley( Book )
12 editions published between 2010 and 2011 in English and held by 1,764 libraries worldwide
Alfonse Rinaldo, the mysterious power-behind- the-throne at City Hall, the fixer who seems to control every little thing that happens in New York City, has a problem that even he can't fix--and he's come to Leonid McGill for help. It seems a young woman has disappeared, leaving murder in her wake, and it means everything to Rinaldo to track her down.