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Jun 17, 1990 · Devil in a Blue Dress is a throwback to the pioneers of noir like Hammett, Chandler, and Cain. Only this PI is black and his case takes place in the black Los Angeles of 1948. Mosley's black LA is just as vivid as Chandler's seedy Hollywood underbelly.
Devil in a Blue Dress is a 1990 hardboiled mystery novel by Walter Mosley, his first published book. The text centers on the main character, Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, and his transformation from a day laborer into a detective.
Jun 11, 2010 · 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.
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Oct 6, 2020 · Devil in a Blue Dress (30th Anniversary Edition): An Easy Rawlins Novel (1) (Easy Rawlins Mystery) Paperback – October 6, 2020. The first novel by “master of mystery” (The New York Times) Walter Mosley, featuring Easy Rawlins, the most iconic African American detective in all of fiction.
May 27, 2014 · by Walter Mosley (Author), Michael Boatman (Reader) 2,617. Book 1 of 15: Easy Rawlins. See all formats and editions. Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant.
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Walter Mosley. W. W. Norton & Company, 1990 - Fiction - 219 pages. "Set in the late 1940s, in the African-American community of Watts, Los Angeles, Devil in a Blue Dress follows Easy Rawlins, a...
Jan 12, 2017 · The summer of '48 in the city of Angels and there's heat on the streets when Daphne Monet hits the sidewalk. Heat when she disappears with a trunkload of somebody else's cash. Easy Rawlins is a war...
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....
Devil in a Blue Dress honors the hard-boiled tradition of Hamett/Chandler/Cain in its story line line and attitude, but Mosley takes us down some mean streets that his spiritual predecessors never could have...A fast moving, entertaining story written with impressive style. This kind of book that leaves you yearning to read more about Easy ...
Devil in a Blue Dress (30th Anniversary Edition): An Easy Rawlins Novel (Volume 1) Paperback – Oct. 6 2020. The first novel by “master of mystery” (The New York Times) Walter Mosley, featuring Easy Rawlins, the most iconic African American detective in all of fiction. Named one of the “best 100 mystery novels of all time” by the ...
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