Devil in a blue dress: An Easy Rawlins Novel
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Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 1.
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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.
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.
Subjects
Subjects
African American Fiction
African American men
African American men -- Fiction
Detective and mystery fiction
Electronic books
Fiction
Hard-Boiled
Hard-Boiled -- Mystery & Detective
Historical Fiction
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction
Mystery
Mystery & Detective
Mystery & Detective -- African American
Private investigators
Private investigators -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction
Private Investigators -- Mystery & Detective
Rawlins, Easy (Fictitious character)
Rawlins, Easy (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
African American men
African American men -- Fiction
Detective and mystery fiction
Electronic books
Fiction
Hard-Boiled
Hard-Boiled -- Mystery & Detective
Historical Fiction
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction
Mystery
Mystery & Detective
Mystery & Detective -- African American
Private investigators
Private investigators -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction
Private Investigators -- Mystery & Detective
Rawlins, Easy (Fictitious character)
Rawlins, Easy (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
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9781982150341
9780393028546
9781451612486
9780393028546
9781451612486
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| Last Grouping Update | 2022-05-25 04:07:45AM |
| Last Indexed | 2022-05-25 05:12:56AM |
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