Easier to Kill

by Valerie Wilson Wesley

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PI Tamara Hayle of New Jersey is hired to learn who is sending threatening notes to black talk-show hostess Mandy Magic. The novel looks at the process by which blacks rise from the ghetto.

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Valerie Wilson Wesley is a contributing editor at Essence magazine.

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Canonical title
Easier to Kill
Original title
Easier to kill
Important places
Newark, New Jersey, USA; New Jersey, USA
Epigraph*
To think
Is much against
The will.

Better -
and easier -
To kill.

Langston Hughes
Dedication*
Für meine Tochter Nandi, die mir immer Blumen schenkt.
First words*
Es war das vornehmste Büro, das ich je gesehen hatte, doch bei den Blumen auf dem Schreibtisch musste ich an Tod und Sterben denken: weisse Lilien.
Last words*
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Aber eins wusste ich - es waren schon zu viele Schatten auf unser beider Leben gefallen, als dass ich diesen Sonnenstrahl leichtfertig aufgeben konnte.
Original language*
Amerikanisch
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Genres
Fiction and Literature, Mystery
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
LCC
PS3573 .E8148 .E18Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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