Walter Mosley, by now, is more than a writer: He’s a brand, a phenomenon, the prolific overlord of noir crime fiction. The author of Devil in a Blue Dress and more than 30 other books and the creator of the characters Easy Rawlins and Fearless Jones, Mosley recently introduced Leonid McGill in 2009’s The Long Fall. McGill, a Manhattan-based, African-American private investigator, can now be found lurching into new escapades in Known to Evil, in which he gets involved with a classic NYC “fixer.” Alphonse Ronaldo, the lucrative client, immediately entangles McGill in the case of a missing women – and the city’s entire seedy underworld. Mosley, who famously started writing at 34 and hasn’t taken a day off since, won’t break from routine today, but he will make time to discuss and sign Known to Evil with Houston fans. 2 p.m. Murder by the Book, 2342 Bissonnet. For information, call 713-524-8597 or visit www.murderbooks.com. Free.
Sun., March 28, 2 p.m., 2010
This article appears in Mar 25-31, 2010.