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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 black woman found, he hires Easy to do his dirty work. Elizabeth Eady - "Black Betty" - is as dark as midnight and just as beautiful. She's an old acquaintance of Easy's, back when he was a child in Texas. She had been working for a rich white woman in Beverley Hills, but left her job with no forwarding address. Easy knows Betty always brings trouble in her wake, but he has a family to support and he 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...


A BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation of Walter Mosley's classic "Easy Rawlins" mystery, first broadcast as part of BBC Radio 4's "American Noir" season.


Ezekiel (Easy) Rawlins ...... Clarke Peters
Saul Lynx ...... John Guerrasio
Elizabeth (Black Betty) Eady ...... Alibe Parsons
Maudria Jones ...... Sharon D Clarke
Odell Jones ...... Dean Hill
Sarah Cain ...... Kate Harper
Gwendolyn Barnes ...... Cecilia Noble
Arthur Hawkes ...... Gerard McDermot


W?itten ?y Walter Mosley
Dramatised by Bonnie Greer
Directed by Ned Chaillet
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1997

1. Episode 1 (23.1Mb)
2. Episode 2 (23.4Mb)
3. Episode 3 (27.6Mb)

MP3 files hosted by archive.org.