Two more novels in the Easy Rawlins series followed- A Red Death in 1991 and White Butterfly in 1992. There was critical acclaim, but it was muted. Norton & Company published Devil in a Blue Dress in 1990.
Tuten was so impressed that he showed it to his own agent, Gloria Loomis, who also liked the novel, and W.W. Seeking editorial guidance, he gave the manuscript to Tuten, his CCNY advisor. After reading Graham Greene’s screenplay, The Third Man, he decided to rework the Easy Rawlins story into a mystery novel. He flung his inaugural work toward the publishing giants of New York.
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.For one of his classes, he had written a novella featuring a man named Ezekiel Rawlins. 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…. 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. Easy knows she always brings trouble in her wake, but he has a family to support and needs Lynx’s money.
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. So when Saul Lynx needs a missing woman found, he hires Easy to do his dirty work.Įlizabeth Eady - ‘Black Betty’ - is as dark as midnight and just as beautiful. On the shady side of LA in 1961, African-American private eye Easy Rawlins can go places a white detective cannot.
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