Fear of the dark
Mosley, Walter.
Fear of the dark a novel by Walter Mosley. - First edition. - New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2006. - 308 pages ; 24 cm
"I'm in trouble, Paris." Paris Minton has heard these words before. They mean only one thing: that his neck is on the line too. So when they are uttered by his low-life cousin Ulysses S. Grant, Paris keeps the door firmly closed. With family like Ulysses - "Useless" to everyone except his mother - who needs enemies?" "But trouble always finds an open window, and when Useless's mother, Three Hearts, shows up from Louisiana to look for her son, Paris has no choice but to track down his wayward cousin." "Finding a con artist like Useless is easier said than done. But with the aid of his ear-to-the-ground friend Fearless Jones, Paris gets a hint that Useless may have expanded his range of enterprise to include blackmail. Now he has disappeared, and Paris's mission is to discover whether he is hiding from his vengeful victims - or already dead. Traversing the complicated landscape of 1950s Los Angeles, where a wrong look can get a black man killed, Paris and Fearless find desperate women, secret lives, and more than one dead body along the way."--BOOK JACKET.
0316734486
2006012741
Jones, Fearless (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Minton, Paris (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Private investigators--California--Los Angeles--Fiction.
Booksellers and bookselling--Fiction.
African American men--Fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.
Noir fiction.
PS 3563.O88456 / .F311 2006
Fear of the dark a novel by Walter Mosley. - First edition. - New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2006. - 308 pages ; 24 cm
"I'm in trouble, Paris." Paris Minton has heard these words before. They mean only one thing: that his neck is on the line too. So when they are uttered by his low-life cousin Ulysses S. Grant, Paris keeps the door firmly closed. With family like Ulysses - "Useless" to everyone except his mother - who needs enemies?" "But trouble always finds an open window, and when Useless's mother, Three Hearts, shows up from Louisiana to look for her son, Paris has no choice but to track down his wayward cousin." "Finding a con artist like Useless is easier said than done. But with the aid of his ear-to-the-ground friend Fearless Jones, Paris gets a hint that Useless may have expanded his range of enterprise to include blackmail. Now he has disappeared, and Paris's mission is to discover whether he is hiding from his vengeful victims - or already dead. Traversing the complicated landscape of 1950s Los Angeles, where a wrong look can get a black man killed, Paris and Fearless find desperate women, secret lives, and more than one dead body along the way."--BOOK JACKET.
0316734486
2006012741
Jones, Fearless (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Minton, Paris (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Private investigators--California--Los Angeles--Fiction.
Booksellers and bookselling--Fiction.
African American men--Fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.
Noir fiction.
PS 3563.O88456 / .F311 2006
