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Devil in a blue dress, Walter Mosley

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Devil in a blue dress, Walter Mosley
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Devil in a blue dress
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Oclc number
875060958
Responsibility statement
Walter Mosley
Series statement
Easy Rawlins mystery, 1
Summary
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
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