SOURCE: "Mysteries That Reveal More Than Just Whodunit," in The New York Times, August 7, 1992, p. C25.
In the following excerpt, Mitgang determines that Mosley has grown "deeper and richer" with White Butterfly, noting that the author emulates the masters of the detective-fiction genre but "continues to reveal the inside of the black-and-white encounter in his own voice."
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