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      A Red Death

      by Walter Mosley
      Published
      Jul 1991
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      Private Investigator Private Investigator
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      256
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      An Easy Rawlins Mystery Book 2

      About This Book

      It's 1953 in Red-baiting, blacklisting Los Angeles, a moral tar-pit ready to swallow Easy Rawlins. Easy is out of "the hurting business" and into the housing (and the favor) business when a racist IRS agent nails him for tax evasion. Special Agent Darryl T. Craxton, FBI, offers to bail him out if he agrees to infiltrate the First African Baptist Church and spy on alleged communist union organizer Chaim Wenzler. That's when the murders begin....

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      Hard-Boiled Private Investigator

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      African-American

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