Easy Rawlins: Black Betty (BBC Radio Crimes)
By: Walter Mosley
Narrated by: Clarke Peters, John Guerrasio, Alibe Parsons
Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
Radio/TV Program
Release date: 01-01-2012
Language: English
Publisher: BBC Worldwide Ltd
On the shady side of LA in 1961, African-American private eye Easy Rawlins can go places a white detective cannot. So when Saul Lynx needs a missing woman found, he hires Easy to do his dirty work.
Elizabeth Eady - �Black Betty� - is as dark as midnight and just as beautiful. An old acquaintance of Easy�s when he was a child back in Texas, she had been working for a rich white woman in Beverley Hills, but left her job with no forwarding address. Easy knows she always brings trouble in her wake, but he has a family to support and needs Lynx�s money.
With Martin Luther King in the news and a new young president in the White House, it�s a time of hope for most black Americans. But as Easy tries to unravel a case that sends him in search of his own past, he finds only death under the stones he is paid to turn over�.
Starring Clarke Peters, John Guerrasio and Alibe Parsons and dramatised by Bonnie Greer, this was first broadcast as part of BBC Radio 4�s �American Noir� season.Warning: contains strong language.
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