Walter Mosley: A Little Yellow Dog (UK 2018)

From the Publisher:
November 1963: Easy's settled into a steady gig as a school custodian. It's a quiet, simple existence -- but a few moments of ecstasy with a sexy teacher will change all that. When the lady vanishes, Easy's stuck with a couple of corpses, the cops on his back, and a little yellow dog who's nobody's best friend. With his not-so-simple past snapping at his heels, and with enemies old and new looking to get even, Easy must kiss his careful little life good-bye -- and step closer to the edge...

Walter Mosley: A Little Yellow Dog. Orion Books, ISBN 9781474608596 (July, 2018), 1.24 MB (ca. 384 p.), £8.99.

Walter Mosley: A Little Yellow Dog (USA 2002)

From the Publisher:
November 1963: Easy's settled into a steady gig as a school custodian. It's a quiet, simple existence -- but a few moments of ecstasy with a sexy teacher will change all that. When the lady vanishes, Easy's stuck with a couple of corpses, the cops on his back, and a little yellow dog who's nobody's best friend. With his not-so-simple past snapping at his heels, and with enemies old and new looking to get even, Easy must kiss his careful little life good-bye -- and step closer to the edge...

Walter Mosley: A Little Yellow Dog. Featuring An Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Gray-Eyed Death". Washington Square Press, ISBN 0743451805 (November, 2002), 375 p., $14.00.

Walter Mosley: A Little Yellow Dog (USA 1997)

From the Publisher:
From Devil in a Blue Dress to Black Betty, New York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley has achieved "vibrant, entertaining and tightly plotted suspense novels," says Peter Handel of the San Francisco Chronicle. Now Mosley, and his reluctant P.I. Easy Rawlins, returns to the edgy, racially charged streets of Los Angeles in this dazzling bestseller by a "master of mystery."

November 1963: Easy's settled into a steady gig as a school custodian. It's a quiet, simple existence -- but a few moments of ecstasy with a sexy teacher will change all that. When the lady vanishes, Easy's stuck with a couple of corpses, the cops on his back, and a little yellow dog who's nobody's best friend. With his not-so-simple past snapping at his heels, and with enemies old and new looking to get even, Easy must kiss his careful little life good-bye -- and step closer to the edge...

Walter Mosley: A Little Yellow Dog. An Easy Rawlins Mystery. Pocket Books, ISBN 0671884298 (July, 1997), 308 p., $6.50.

Walter Mosley: A Little Yellow Dog (UK 1996)

From the Publisher:
JEK is president and Ezekiel (aka Easy) Porterhouse Rawlins has a job with the Los Angeles Board of Education. No dogs are allowed on the property of the school where Easy works but Pharoah, the dog in question, belongs to Idabell Turner, a curvaceous teacher with a husband with murder on his mind.

Before the day is over the teacher is gone, leaving Easy with her dog, and the handsomest corpse Easy has ever seen is found in the school garden. That night a second corpse turns up. The police believe that Easy is involved in the murders. The hear of the school wants to fire him. A murderer is on the loose. And a little yellow dog plots revenge.

Once again, Walter Mosley says profound truths about the state of the nation in a fast page turner laced with drugs, desire and death. Inside and outside the genre, Walter Mosley is the American writer of our times.

Walter Mosley: A Little Yellow Dog. An Easy Rawlins Mystery. Serpent's Tail, ISBN 1852423706 (September, 1996), Mask Noir 8, 266 p., £8.99.

Walter Mosley: A Little Yellow Dog (USA 1996)

From the Publisher:
A Little Yellow Dog is the eagerly awaited new Easy Rawlins novel by Walter Mosley -- the most acclaimed mystery writer of the nineties and a major presence in American literature.

With each succeeding mystery featuring his reluctant detective (and natural-born existentialist) Easy Rawlins, Walter Mosley gains new fans and builds on what is now recognized as a permanent addition to American crime writing. Here, writing at the top of his form, he gives us A Little Yellow Dog -- another instant classic of suspense, style, and shrewd social observation, and a certain bestseller.

It's 1963. Easy Rawlins has given up the street life that has brought him so much trouble and grief. He's taken on a job as super-vising custodian of Sojourner Truth Junior High School in Watts. For two years he's been getting up early and going off to work. He wears nice clothes and puts all his energy -- and love -- into his job and his adopted children. Easy likes his new life, even though he feels empty and a little bored sometimes. But all that is about to change.

Easy comes in early one morning to find one of the teachers already in her classroom. She has a dog with her and a story about a husband gone mad. Before he knows what's happening, the teacher is in his arms. Before the day is over the teacher is gone, leaving Easy with her dog, and the handsomest corpse Easy has ever seen is found in the school garden. That night a second corpse turns up.

Easy may have left the streets but he hasn't been forgotten. The world is changing faster than he can keep up with. The police believe that Easy is involved in the murders.

Old enemies are waiting to get even. The principal of the school wants to fire him. His old friends aren't the same and his new friends might be his death. Easy wants back into his careful little life, but that door is closed. A murderer is running loose some. where. And a little yellow dog plots revenge.

Walter Mosley: A Little Yellow Dog. An Easy Rawlins Mystery. W. W. Norton, ISBN 0393039242 (June, 1996), 300 p., $23.00.