Synopsis
Easy Rawlins is hired to find Black Betty, a vixen from his old Houston neighborhood now living in Beverly Hills. The family Betty works for wants to find her, for what purpose, Easy doesn't know. But $200 is $200, and it doesn't hurt to look. Besides, Easy can never resist a mystery, especially if it looks like trouble.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1994-09-01 | | Narrated by: | Stanley Bennett Clay | | Series: | Library Editions |
| Size | | Height: | 9.8 in | | Width: | 7.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 16.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"[A] compelling, multilayered novel. What counts is the author's unique voice, his presentation of a time and place never visited before, his vivid characterizations, his inflection-perfect dialogue."
Washington Post Book World - Dick Lochte
"'Black Betty' is Mosley's strongest Rawlins case yet....There's not one false move here. It's all as real and authentic as a low moan in a gut-bucket blues or full-out shout in a Pentecostal church."
Quarterly Black Review of Books - Robert Fleming
"The writing is so good, and the characters that Mosley is constantly introducing are so interesting that you can't put the book down....His descriptions of the homes of the haves and have-nots of Los Angeles...is as good as you would find in Chandler at his best. And his dialogue is just as good."
Los Angeles Times Book Review - Ernest J. Gaines
"Mr. Mosley beats hell out of most of today's contenders for consideration as a top-ranking writer in the mystery division....His words prowl around the page before they pounce, knocking you not so much upside the head as around the body where you feel them the longest."
New York Times Book Review - Barry Gifford
"This is a mystery writer at the top of his form, and his top is about as good as any top still spinning. He's savvy and witty, smart and angry, careful in his construction and hard headed about violence. There is no other American writer who has successfully managed to mold the detective form into a historical serial of this sort, and one can only admire the vision behind the adventure."
San Francisco Chronicle - Paul Skenazy
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