MOSLEY, Walter. White Butterfly. An Easy Rawlins Mystery. New York. W.W. Norton. 1992.
8vo. Publisher's blue half cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, dust jacket illustrated by John Jinks retaining price of $19.95 to front flap; pp. 272; minor pushing to crown and base of spine, author's signature in black ink to title page; near fine.
First edition. Signed by the author.
A unique take on the typical noir thriller. Easy Rawlins is a black private detective who seeks justice for victims typically ignored by the LAPD. In this novel, the murders of three black bar girls are largely ignored by the press until a white woman is killed in the same manner. Easy Rawlins teams up with police detective Quentin Naylor to solve the case.
This is the third book in the Easy Rawlins series, following the debut hit Devil in a Blue Dress and its sequel A Red Death.
SKU: 2083043