The Man in My Basement

Walter Mosley

Original title: The man in my basement

first published 2004 Little, Brown, 2004 249 pages

The man at Charles Blakey's door has a proposition almost too strange for words. He wants to spend the summer in Charles's basement, and Charles cannot even begin to guess why. The beautiful house has been in the Blakey family for generations, but Charles has just lost his job and is behind on his mortgage payments. The money would be welcome. But Charles Blakey is black and Anniston Bennet is white, and it is clear...

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Editions we hold

Man in My Basement edition · 2007 · Little Brown & Company · 9780316015172
The Man in My Basement paperback · 2005 · Back Bay Books · 272 pages · 9780316159319
Man in My Basement edition · 2005 · Serpent's Tail Limited · 224 pages · 9781852427900
The man in my basement edition · 2004 · Serpent's Tail · 249 pages
The man in my basement edition · 2004 · Little, Brown · 249 pages
Man in My Basement edition · 2004 · Little Brown & Company · 9780759508590
The Man in My Basement edition · 2004 · Serpents Tail · 249 pages · 9780965913478
Man in My Basement edition · 2004 · Little Brown & Company · 9780759508583
The man in my basement edition · 2004 · Thorndike Press · 303 pages
The Man in My Basement audiobook · 2004 · Little, Brown & Company · 9781586215859
The Man in My Basement ebook · 2004 · Little, Brown and Company · 9780759508606

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