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Walter Mosley
[1952-] |
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Easy Rawlins, a black WWII veteran, unlicensed
private sleuth, and real estate investor, starting in the late 1940s, in
Los Angeles, California: |
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Devil
in a Blue Dress (1990)
A
Red Death (1991)
White
Butterfly (1992)
Black
Betty (1994)
A
Little Yellow Dog (1996)
Gone
Fishin’2 (1997)
Bad
Boy Brawly Brown (2002)
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Six
Easy Pieces3 (2003) [SS]
Little
Scarlet (2004)
Cinnamon
Kiss (2005)
Blonde
Faith (2007)
Little Green (2013)
Rose Gold (2014)
Charcoal Joe (2016)
Blood Grove (2021)
Farewell, Amethystine (2024) |
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Socrates Fortlow,
a philosophical ex-con in California: |
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Always
Outnumbered, Always Outgunned (1997) [SS]
Walkin’ the
Dog (1999) |
The
Right Mistake: The Further Philosophical Investigations of Socrates
Fortlow (2008) |
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Paris Minton, Watts bookstore owner,
and the dangerous but principled Fearless Jones, in 1950s Los Angeles,
California: |
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Fearless
Jones (2001)
Fear
Itself (2003)
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Fear
of the Dark (2006) |
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Leonid McGill, a black ex-boxer, old-school
private investigator, in New York City: |
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The
Long Fall (2009)
Known
to Evil (2010)
When
the Thrill Is Gone (2011)
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All
I Did Was Shoot My Man (2012)
And Sometimes I Wonder About You (2015)
Trouble Is What I Do (2020) |
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Joe King Oliver, a NYPD detective framed for sexual assault now working as a private investigator with his teenage daughter: |
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Down the River Unto the Sea (2018)
Every Man a King (2023) |
Been Wrong So Long It Feelis Like Right (due January 28, 2025) |
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Non-series: |
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The
Man in My Basement (2004)
Diablerie (2007)
The
Last Days of Ptolemy Grey (2010) |
Parishioner (2012) [ebook]
Down the River unto the Sea (2018)
John Woman (2018) |
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Other fiction: |
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R.L.’s Dream (1995)
Blue
Light (1998)
Futureland:
Nine Stories of an Imminent World (2001) [SS]
47 (2005)
The
Wave (2006)
Killing
Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel (2006)
Fortunate
Son (2006)
The
Tempest Tales (2008)
The Gift of Fire & On the Head of a Pin: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion (2012)
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Merge & Disciple: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion (2012)
Stepping Stone & Love Machine: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion (2013)
Odyssey (2013)
Debbie Doesn’t Do It Anymore (2014)
Inside a Silver Box (2015)
The Further Tales of Tempest Landry (2015) [ebook]
The Awkward Black Man (2020) [SS] |
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Non-fiction: |
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This Year You Write Your Novel (2007) |
The Elements of Fiction Writing (2019) |
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