rollins -- e.z. rollins comes into the library to get some help are -- help from the librarian, and she's reading catcher in the rye, and she has a scowl on her face. he asks her do you like the book, and she says, well, i do, but i can't imagine some black kid or latino kid reading this book, how are they supposed to relate? >> guest: it's true. >> host: whining about his life. >> guest: oh, yeah, i didn't like my car. man, if i had his money, i'd be happy. why he kills himself, i don't understand why anybody would kill themself if they've got all this t money. they've gotey a nice big house and, you know, and that's a notion. a but, you know, i mean, i think that i don't have any limit on what you should read because what you like and what you don't like, who knows what it is. you know? it's not defined by your gerund, by your race -- by your gender, by your race, by your class. you might just love reading charles dickens or the idiot. okay, fine. but you should read what you love thehe, you know -

rollins. host: where does our windows "devil in a blue dress" take place? guest: 1948 in los angeles, which is, you know it's an amazing event for change. los angeles back then was populated 240,000, maybe 300,000. hundred thousand people a year move into los angeles or southern california from then until now and then part of that was all these black people from southern texas and louisiana and if so what you see is this amazing amount of change, more than any place else in the country. of the city's building, the idea is building: the culture's building and the relation between the races are building. and was a wonderful time host: easy rawlins, a world war ii veteran, wet story are you trying to tell by making it easy rawlins a world war ii veteran? guest: i think world war ii with this amazing change for black people in america, i mean, it was for everyone, but for black people it's different. my father is from southern texas louisiana one might father's story was he left to go to the world

rollins. >> kind of what you do. >> i'm looking for somebody. >> she been gone two weeks. see, that man has a predilection for the company of negroes. >> he thought he knew how to play the game. >> any of y'all seen a white girl by the name of dahlia, something like that? >> my name is daphne. you can't get none of that tonight. >> until he stepped into a world -- >> why don't you tell me about your friend. >> -- where there are no rules. >> why you arresting me? >> what is going on? >> she's not going to be waking up, ezekiel. >> he's looking for a woman no one wants found. >> was there anyone with you, a young lady named daphne monet, perhaps? >> the chief of police, close personal frend of mine. -- friend of mine. >> and getting in deeper than he ever expected. >> this is daphne monet. you're looking for me. i don't know if i should think of you as a friend or as a private dick. >> surrounded by lies. >> you can trust me, mr. rollins. i am an ex-mayor and, luckily for you, a friend of the n