A Little Yellow Dog

CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR WALTER

MOSLEY’S EASY RAWLINS NOVELS

A LITTLE YELLOW DOG

“[A] well-energized and crafty volume….”

—The New York Times Book Review

“Mosley … writes with a pure, true voice. A Little Yellow Dog marks another winner for its remarkable author.”

—Houston Chronicle

“A Little Yellow Dog is just as smoky and sexy as Devil In a Blue Dress…. [Mosley] tells his story fast and hard, sometimes funny, sometimes lyrical.”

—San Jose Mercury News

“Easy Rawlins is back, which is great news…. Mosley’s thrillers, always thrilling, are salutary as well.”

—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“How does Walter Mosley do it? … Each Easy Rawlins mystery is better than its predecessor—richer, more nuanced and, in this case, funnier.”

—Newsday

“Mosley just writes so well—so crisply, so smoothly…. His view of human nature is bone-solid realistic, no illusions.”

—Philadelphia Inquirer

“Early 1960s black Los Angeles is alive in the look and talk of the book…. Easy is a cool dude struggling to stay alive and make sense of his tough and tawdry world.”

—Boston Sunday Globe

BLACK BETTY

“Detective fiction at its best—bold, breathtaking, and brutal.”

—Chicago Sun-Times

“As always, Mosley’s grip on character is compelling.”

—People

“Compelling, multilayered.”

—The Washington Post

“Black Betty is moody, absorbing, and disquieting as a recurrent dream.”

—New York Daily News

“Mysteries don’t get much better than this.”

—Detroit Free Press

WHITE BUTTERFLY

“Rawlins … might be the best American character to appear in quite some time.”

—Entertainment Weekly

“Compelling…. In all of American fiction, only Richard Wright treats America’s race problem more savagely.”

—Village Voice Literary Supplement

“With White Butterfly, Walter Mosley has established himself as one of America’s best mystery writers.”

—The New York Times Book Review

“Powerful…. Like its predecessors, White Butterfly provides excitement, social commentary, and clever, syncopated dialogue. If [Philip] Marlowe was tough, Easy has to be even tougher.”

—Washington Post Book World

A RED DEATH

“Fascinating and vividly rendered … exotic and believable, filled with memorable individuals and morally complex situations.”

—The Wall Street Journal

“Exhilaratingly original.”

—Philadelphia Inquirer

DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS

“I read Devil in a Blue Dress in one sitting and didn’t want it to end. An astonishing first novel.”

—Jonathan Kellerman

“The social commentary is sly, the dialogue fabulous, the noir atmosphere so real you could touch it. A first novel? That’s what they say. Amazing. Smashing.”

—Cosmopolitan

“Richly atmospheric…. A fast-moving, entertaining story.”

—Los Angeles Times Book Review

GONE FISHIN’

“It is, in some respects, the best of Mosley’s novels…. Mosley displays a pitch-perfect gift for capturing the cadences of black speech that rivals the dialogue in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.”

—Time

“A powerfully raw, lyrical coming-of-age story…. This late encounter with the early Easy offers an extra dimension to readers who have met, in previous stories, the man he grew to be.”

—Publishers Weekly

BOOKS BY WALTER MOSLEY

PUBLISHED BY POCKET BOOKS

Devil in a Blue Dress

A Red Death

White Butterfly

Black Betty

A Little Yellow Dog

Gone Fishin’

WALTER

MOSLEY

A LITTLE YELLOW DOG

AN EASY RAWLINS MYSTERY

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Copyright © 1996 by Walter Mosley

“Gray-Eyed Death” copyright © 2002 by Walter Mosley

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