The Resource Down the river unto the sea, Walter Mosley
Down the river unto the sea, Walter Mosley
Resource Information
The item Down the river unto the sea, Walter Mosley represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
Resource Information
The item Down the river unto the sea, Walter Mosley represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
- Summary
- Ten years after serving time at Rikers Island for assault, Joe King Oliver, an ex-NYPD investigator working as a private detective, receives a note from a woman who admits she was paid to frame him, compelling him to find out who on the police force wanted him out. He also agrees to help a radical black journalist accused of killing two on-duty police officers who had been abusing their badges to traffic in drugs and prostitutes in the city's poorest neighborhoods. The two cases intertwine, exposing a pattern of corruption and brutality wielded against black men, women, and children whose lives the law detroyed
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Down the river unto the sea
- Title
- Down the river unto the sea
- Statement of responsibility
- Walter Mosley
- Title variation
- Down the river to the sea
- Subject
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- Detective and mystery stories
- Ex-police officers -- Fiction
- Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
- Judicial error -- Fiction
- Police corruption -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
- Private investigators -- Fiction
- Private investigators -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
- African American detectives -- Fiction
- trueSuspense fiction
- Winners circle
- Race relations -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Ten years after serving time at Rikers Island for assault, Joe King Oliver, an ex-NYPD investigator working as a private detective, receives a note from a woman who admits she was paid to frame him, compelling him to find out who on the police force wanted him out. He also agrees to help a radical black journalist accused of killing two on-duty police officers who had been abusing their badges to traffic in drugs and prostitutes in the city's poorest neighborhoods. The two cases intertwine, exposing a pattern of corruption and brutality wielded against black men, women, and children whose lives the law detroyed
- Cataloging source
- APLS
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1952-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Mosley, Walter
- Dewey number
- 813.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- African American detectives
- Private investigators
- Judicial error
- Private investigators
- Ex-police officers
- Police corruption
- Race relations
- Fathers and daughters
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Down the river unto the sea, Walter Mosley
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000061905712
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 322 pages
- Isbn
- 9781474608749
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)999508032
- Label
- Down the river unto the sea, Walter Mosley
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000061905712
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 322 pages
- Isbn
- 9781474608749
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)999508032
Subject
- Detective and mystery stories
- Ex-police officers -- Fiction
- Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
- Judicial error -- Fiction
- Police corruption -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
- Private investigators -- Fiction
- Private investigators -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
- African American detectives -- Fiction
- trueSuspense fiction
- Winners circle
- Race relations -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
Genre
Library Locations
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Lionel Bowen Library and Community CentreBorrow it669-673 Anzac Parade, Marouba, NSW, 2035, AU-33.938111 151.237977
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Malabar Community LibraryBorrow it1203 Anzac Parade, Matraville, NSW, 2036, AU-33.962293 151.245961
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Margaret Martin LibraryBorrow itLevel 1, Royal Randwick Shopping Centre, Randwick, NSW, 2031, AU-33.9151421 151.2408898
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