I had a reputation for fairness and the strength of my convictions among the poor. I settled disputes that would have otherwise come to bloodshed. Maybe they worried about their daughter's company or a wayward son. Maybe somebody stole their money or their illegally registered car. People would come to me if they had serious trouble but couldn't go to the police. At that time almost everybody in my neighborhood had come from the country around southern Texas and Louisiana. It was a real country way of doing business. I'd do something for somebody, like find a missing husband or figure out who's been breaking into so-and-so's store, and then maybe they could do me a good turn one day. On top of real estate I was in the business of favors. And when I wasn't doing that I could do my little private job. All I had to do was the maintenance work, which I liked because whenever you hired somebody to work for you they always took too long and charged too much. I owned three buildings, the Magnolia Street place being the largest, and a small house on 116th Street. However, he keeps his ownership secret:Įverybody thought I was the handyman and that Mofass collected the rent for some white lady downtown. That book was followed by A Red Death, and picks up five years later.Īfter the occurrences in the first book, Easy Rawlins has come into a large amount of money, and he has used that money to buy some apartment houses.
The first book, Devil in a Blue Dress, was set in 1948 in Los Angeles, California. The fourteenth book in the series will come out later this year.
Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins is the protagonist in a crime fiction series by Walter Mosley.
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