Walter Mosley A Little Yellow Dog, W.W. Norton: NY, 1996, 300 pp. (1963)
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(p. 173) "Jackson was afraid to stay down in L.A. because he thought that he was open to any black man who knew the price . . . He was afraid of Hollywood and downtown because of the gangsters themselves.
"So I took him to the Oasis Palms Motel on Lincoln in Santa Monica. . . .
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