Fear itself : a mystery

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Label

Fear itself : a mystery

Title remainder

a mystery

Statement of responsibility

by Walter Mosley

Creator

• trueMosley, Walter

Subject

• Private investigators -- California | Los Angeles -- Fiction
• trueRace relations
• trueWatts, Los Angeles, California
• trueAfrican American booksellers
• trueAfrican American men
• African American men -- Fiction
• trueAmateur detectives
• Booksellers and bookselling -- Fiction
• trueExtortion
• trueJones, Fearless (Fictitious character)
• Jones, Fearless (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
• Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction
• trueLos Angeles, California
• trueMinton, Paris (Fictitious character)
• Minton, Paris (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
• trueMissing persons investigation
• trueMurder
• trueMurder investigation

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Paris Minton doesn't want any trouble. He minds his used bookstore and his own business. But in 1950s Los Angeles, sometimes trouble finds him, no matter how hard he tries to avoid it. When the nephew of the wealthiest woman in L.A. is missing and wanted for murder, she has to get involved--no matter if she can't stand him. What will her church think? She hires Jefferson T. Hill, a former sheriff of Dawson, Texas, and a tough customer, to track him down and prove his innocence. When Hill goes missing too, she tricks his friend Fearless Jones and Paris Minton into picking up the case. Paris steps inside the world of the black bourgeoisie, and it turns out to be filled with deceit and corruption. It takes everything he has just to stay alive through a case filled with twists and turns and dead ends like he never imagined. Written with the voice and vision that have made Walter Mosley one of the most entertaining writers in America, FEAR ITSELF marks the return of a master at the top of his form

Member of

• Fearless Jones novels, 2
• trueFearless Jones novels

Storyline

• trueCharacter-driven
• trueOwn voices

Pace

• trueFast-paced

Tone

• trueAtmospheric

Character

• trueCulturally diverse

Award

New York Times Notable Mysteries, 2003

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Series statement

Fearless Jones novels

Series volume

2