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Fearless Jones by Walter Mosley5/18/2023 ![]() I could really identify with his love for books and reading. Two things in particular appealed to me about this story. ![]() I can happily forego that era of the Chandler novels and replace them with anything written by Mosley. Certainly Fearless Jones and his side kick Paris Minton qualify. There are so many dead bodies! On reflection I think that it must be the appeal of the anti-hero. I am not certain what the appeal is of suspense and mystery novels of this "gritty detective" genre. I am currently working on the first installment of his Socrates Fortlow series: Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned. Although this is the second Mosley novel I read (I finished John Woman in 2019) I have come to enjoy his work. ![]() I remembered watching Denzel Washington act in Devil With a Blue Dress, a film version of a Walter Mosley novel, so I went in search of Mr. Reading it made me want to find mysteries written by African Americans with African American protagonists. I recently read a Raymond Chandler novel from the 1940s and was displeased with the blatant racism in the novel. ![]()
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