Black Betty by Walter Mosley First Edition Hardcover

This isn't my first Easy Rawlins Mystery, but it's one of my favorites. There's no need to be an Easy aficionado or have read any previous installments, Mosley makes it so you can jump into most entries and Black Betty is no different. I highly recommend this one! 

Condition: Book, boards, and dust jacket are in excellent condition with normal shelf wear.

Synopsis: 1961: For most black Americans, these were times of hope. For former P.I. Easy Rawlins, Los Angeles's mean streets were never meaner...or more deadly. Ordinarily, Easy would have thrown the two bills in the sleazy shamus' face -- the white man who wanted him to find the notorious Black Betty, an ebony siren whose talent for all things rich and male took her from Houston's Fifth Ward to Beverly Hills. There was too much Easy wasn't being told, but he couldn't resist the prospect of seeing Betty again, even if it killed him....

Fun fact: the photograph of the woman on the cover is of Pearl Primus, who was an American dancer, choreographer and anthropologist. Primus played an important role in the presentation of African dance to American audiences.