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Devil in a Blue Dress, a defining novel in Walter Mosley's bestselling Easy Rawlins mystery series, was adapted into a TriStar Pictures film starring Denzel Washington as Easy Rawlins and Don Cheadle as Mouse. Set in the late 1940s, in the African-American community of Watts, Los Angeles, Devil in a Blue Dress follows Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant. Easy is drinking in a friend's bar, wondering how he'll meet his mortgage, when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Monet, a blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs.
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Mosley, Walter
- ISBN: 9780743451796
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 8.32 x 0.72
- Number Of Pages: 272
- Publication Year: 2002
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Brilliant Beginning to a Brilliant Series of Detective Noir
Pickup C. - 5 years 9 months agoIf you like the detective/mystery genre, and if you've ever wondered what life was like for black people living during the late 1940's and early '50's, then you will want to read Devil In A Blue Dress. This is the first book of the Easy Rawlins series, based in the post-war Los Angeles, California, era.