![]() ![]() ![]() Rawlins had previously informed the police of his suspicions of Harold for another killing, but his input was discounted. ![]() With help from Mouse, ' the most dangerous man in L.A.', Easy soon tracks down the man involved, but believes him innocent and focuses instead on a hobo named Harold, who may have killed many black women involved with white men. They need Easy's investigative ability at a time when white police officers are even less welcome than usual in black neighborhoods. Now, the police suspect that this unknown man killed her, and plan to find and arrest him before the facts become known and trigger further riots. Nola took in a white man who was beaten by the mob. Backed by Deputy Commissioner of Police Gerald Jordan (a man whom Easy despises), Suggs asks for Rawlins's help in tracking down the murderer of a young, black woman, Nola Payne, affectionately named ' Little Scarlet' by her loving aunt. Trying to explain to his daughter Feather, Easy muses ' I didn't want the violence but I was tired of policemen stopping me just for walking down the street.' He tells Feather that people fight because they don't understand each other, ' they don't know what it's like to be in the other man's skin.'Ī white police officer named Melvin Suggs shows up at Easy's office. Easy has been observing events, while trying to control a mounting anger, one that's built up all through his life. This Easy (Ezekiel) Rawlins story takes place just after the explosion of the 1965 L. Little Scarlet: An Easy Rawlins Mystery by Walter Mosley ![]()
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