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Angel Fiction

White Butterfly (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)

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  • 1992 first published
  • 295 pages
  • ★ 4.3 (3 ratings)
  • 22 editions
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Walter Mosley's White Butterfly (Easy Rawlins Mysteries) (1992) is an angel fiction novel. It takes readers to Los Angeles, Calif. and California in 1956. Characters include Easy Rawlins. Readers will find themes of easy Rawlins, detectives, private investigators and African American men.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.3 out of 5 from 3 ratings, and 17 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 22 editions across 4 languages.

It runs to roughly 295 pages — 5–6 hours of reading at an average pace.

About White Butterfly (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)

The police don't show up on Easy Rawlins's doorstep until the third girl dies. It's Los Angeles, 1956, and it takes more than one murdered black girl before the cops get interested. Now they need Easy. As he says: "I was worth a precinct full of detectives when the cops needed the word in the ghetto." But Easy turns them down. He's married now, a father -- and his detective days are over. Then a white college coed dies the same brutal death, and the cops put the heat on Easy: If he doesn't help, his best friend is headed for jail. So Easy's back, walking the midnight streets of Watts and the darker, twisted avenues of a cunning killer's mind....
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Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Era

  • 1956

Characters

  • Easy Rawlins

Subjects

  • Easy Rawlins
  • Detectives
  • Detective and mystery stories
  • Private investigators
  • African American men
  • Mystery & Detective
  • Rawlins, easy
  • California
  • Los angeles, Calif.
  • Mystery & detective
  • African americans
  • Rawlins, Easy
  • Private investigators, California, Los Angeles
  • Novela norteamericana, s. XX-XXI
  • Détectives, Californie, Los Angeles, Romans, nouvelles, etc
  • Hommes noirs américains, Romans, nouvelles, etc

Quick answers

Who wrote White Butterfly (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)?

White Butterfly (Easy Rawlins Mysteries) was written by Walter Mosley and first published in 1992.

What genre is White Butterfly (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)?

It is usually shelved as Angel Fiction.

How long is White Butterfly (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)?

The median edition has 295 pages, about 5–6 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to White Butterfly (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)?

Readers who like it often enjoy A Darkness More Than Night, The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye.

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