Easy Rawlins Black Betty
Walter Mosley
Jan 2012 · BBC Digital Audio · Narrated by Alibe Parsons, Clarke Peters, Full Cast and John Guerrasio
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On the shady side of LA in 1961, African-American private eye Easy Rawlins can go places a white detective cannot. So when Saul Lynx needs a missing woman found, he hires Easy to do his dirty work. Elizabeth Eady - ‘Black Betty’ - is as dark as midnight and just as beautiful. An old acquaintance of Easy’s when he was a child back in Texas, she had been working for a rich white woman in Beverley Hills, but left her job with no forwarding address. Easy knows she always brings trouble in her wake, but he has a family to support and needs Lynx’s money. With Martin Luther King in the news and a new young president in the White House, it’s a time of hope for most black Americans. But as Easy tries to unravel a case that sends him in search of his own past, he finds only death under the stones he is paid to turn over... Starring Clarke Peters, John Guerrasio and Alibe Parsons and dramatised by Bonnie Greer, this was first broadcast as part of BBC Radio 4’s ‘American Noir’ season. Warning: contains strong language.
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14 March 2021
WHYYYYYYYYYYYY is the audio not matching up with the book? I'm confused!!!!! Is there more than one version of this book? I like to read along with the audio, it gives me the feeling that I'm apart of the story. This is upsetting bcuz I purchased the book twice, thinking I had an old version. However, both books are exactly the same, it's the audio that's different. Please explain why this is?
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Walter Mosley is an American author who is probably best known for his 'Easy Rawlins' series of detective novels. The first, Devil in a Blue Dress, was published in 1990, and won a Shamus Award for Best First Novel the following year. It was later adapted as a hit movie starring Denzel Washington. He has also written three other crime series, the 'Fearless Jones', 'Leonid McGill' and 'Socrates Fortlow' books, as well as several works of science fiction, literary fiction, non-fiction and a young adult novel. His books have been translated into 23 languages, and he has won numerous awards including an O. Henry Award, a lifetime achievement award from PEN America and the University of Southern California's Literary Achievement Award.
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