Find a link to the full-length interview in the upper-right. MPR's Toni Randolph spoke with the author. riots were a pivotal moment in American history. So they enlist Easy to help find her killer. The police think the killer is white, but they want to keep things hush-hush because they don't want the riots to re-erupt. Wood ash mainly but there was also the acrid stench of. Just after devastating riots tear through Los Angeles in 1965 the police turn up at Easy Rawlins doorstep to ask for his help.A man was wrenched from his. Little Scarlet, the eighth Rawlins novel (after Bad Boy Brawly Brown), is unusual for Mosley, because it focuses as much on the credible mechanics of crime-solving as it does on the exposition of character and the exploration of L.A.'s mid-20th-century black culture. Witnesses later saw him fleeing her building not long after, Little Scarlet was. 24.95 Friday, JChapter One The morning air still smelled of smoke. A redheaded woman known as Little Scarlet had sheltered a man during the riots. This time a black woman nicknamed "little Scarlet," because of her red hair, has been killed during the Los Angeles riots in 1965. Little Scarlet By Walter Mosley Little, Brown. Writer Walter Mosley's latest novel "Little Scarlet," features the street detective once again trying to solve a mystery. Mosley examines 1960s race relations in sleuth novel 'Little Scarlet'Įasy Rawlins is back in Walter Mosley's latest novel, "Little Scarlet." (Courtesy of Little, Brown Publishers)Įasy Rawlins is back. Talk about this story in the MPR News Forum
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