DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (Easy Rawlins Mysteries): Book Guide, Author and Facts

Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins has few illusions about the world--at least not about the world of a young black veteran in the late 1940s in Southern California. His stint in the Army didn't do anything to dissuade him from his belief that justice doesn't come cheap, especially for men like him. "I thought there might be some justice for a black man if he had money to grease it," Easy says. Fired from his job on the line at an aircraft plant, he's in danger of losing his home, symbol of his tenuous hold on middle class status. That's a good enough reason to accept a white man's offer to pay him for finding a beautiful, mysterious Frenchwoman named Daphne Monet, last seen in the company of a well-known gangster. Easy's search takes the reader to an L.A. few writers have shown us before--the mean streets of South Central, the after-hours joints in dirty basement clubs, the cheap hotels and f

Quick facts about DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)

• Title: DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)
• Author: Walter Mosley
• First published: 1990
• Genre: fiction, mystery & detective, general, rawlins, easy (fictitious character), fiction, los angeles (calif.), fiction
• OpenLibrary ID: OL115528W

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