A Red Death (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Walter Mosley
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature, Amateur sleuth fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Communism or communists, Murder or homicide, Los Angeles, Jews or Jewish life
- Locales: Los Angeles, CA
In A Red Death, it is now 1953, the period of McCarthyism. Easy has used the money he made in Devil in a Blue Dress to buy rental properties, which he owns secretly. He pretends to work for Mofass, his manager and rent collector. Trouble looms, however, when an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent named Lawrence targets Easy for investigation. Easy is soon facing the possibility of prison.
As if this is not enough, Etta Mae and LaMarque, Mouse's wife and son, come up from Houston. Etta Mae is estranged from Mouse and wants to live with Easy. Easy desires Etta Mae,...
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