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DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS
Walter Mosley
Paperback (Washington Square Press, Nov. 1, 1997)Devil in a Blue Dress honors the tradition of the classic American detective novel by bestowing on it a vivid social canvas and the freshest new voice in crime writing in years, mixing the hard-boiled poetry of Raymond Chandler with the racial realism of Richard Wright to explosive effect.
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DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS - An Easy Rawlins Mystery
Walter Mosley, John Jinks;
Paperback (Pocket Books, March 15, 1991)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.
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Devil in a Blue Dress
Walter Mosley, Paul Winfield
Audio Cassette (Macmillan Audio, Aug. 15, 1993)Detective Easy Rawlins is hired by a financier and a gangster to locate Daphne Monet, a search that leads him from elegant board meetings to the raucous jazz joints of the late forties in Los Angeles.
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Devil in a Blue Dress
Walter Mosley
Paperback (Serpents Tail, Sept. 30, 2001)The time is 1948. The town is Los Angeles. The hero is Easy Rawlins, an out of work black war veteran. The mortgage payment's coming due, so Easy accepts the assignment of finding Daphne Monet, a blonde torch singer with a penchant for jazz and criminal black consorts. In his search through a sleazy, fearful city, he is lucky to be under the protection of the murderous Mouse who wants a piece of the action. Easy Rawlins is a fascinating creation driving a plot that carries a fine and bitter sting. With this first novel, Walter Mosley made a distinctly confident start to his career as a great and inspirational writer.
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Devil in a Blue Dress
Walter Mosley
Paperback (Pan Books, June 5, 1992)None
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Devil in a Blue Dress
Walter Mosley
Paperback (Serpent's Tale, March 15, 1991)None
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Devil in a Blue Dress
Walter Mosley
Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, June 1, 1993)Detective Easy Rawlins is hired by a financier and a gangster to locate Daphne Monet, a search that leads him from elegant board meetings to the raucous jazz joints of the late forties in Los Angeles. (Mystery).
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Devil in a Blue Dress
Walter Mosley
Paperback (Washington Square Press, March 15, 1768)None
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Devil in a Blue Dress
Walter Mosley
Paperback (Washington Square Press, Sept. 24, 2002)Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is 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 Money, a blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs....
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Devil in a Blue Dress
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Paperback (W F Howes Ltd, Jan. 1, 2002)None
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Devil in a Blue Dress
Walter Mosely, G.C. Simms
Audio Cassette (Books On Tape, Inc., March 15, 1994)It's 1948 in Los Angeles, and Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins needs to make a mortgage payment. Too bad all he has in his pocket is lint. Along comes a savior, looking like a devil and talking like a devil, but offering Easy the precious cash he needs. The man has one simple request: find the woman wearing the blue dress in a photograph. But Easy knows that you get what you pay for in this world, and the man wouldn't be paying so much if it were that easy. Life is tough. But so are Easy Rawlins and his wild helpmate, Mouse.
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Devil in a Blue Dress
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Audio CD (Macmillan Audio, July 19, 2002)a great book to read