num_pages: 312
description: A “fascinating and vividly rendered” ( The Wall Street Journal ) mystery featuring one of crime fiction’s greatest protagonists—private investigator Easy Rawlins—as he agrees to a dangerous surveillance job.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 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 American Baptist Church and spy on alleged communist organizer Chaim Wenzler. That’s when the murders begin....
language: English
title: A Red Death
titlecomplete: A Red Death (Easy Rawlins, #2)
characters: Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, EttaMae Harris, Raymond "Mouse" Alexander
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Noir, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Crime, African American
ratings_count: 5421
places: Los Angeles, California
series: Easy Rawlins
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: CWA Silver Dagger
publisher: Washington Square Press