Devil in a blue dress

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Devil in a blue dress

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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 furnished rooms, the places people go when they don't want to be found. Evocative of a past time, and told in a style that's reminiscent of Hammet and Chandler, yet uniquely his own, Mosley's depiction of an inherently decent man in a violent world of intrigue and corruption rang up big sales when it was published in 1990 (although the movie version, with Denzel Washington as Easy, never found the audience it deserved). The minor characters are deftly and brilliantly developed, especially Mouse, who saves Easy's life even as he draws him deeper into the mystery of Daphne Monet. Like many of Mosley's characters, Mouse makes a return appearance in the succeeding Easy Rawlins mysteries, such as A Red Death, Black Betty, and White Butterfly, every one of which is as good as Devil in a Blue Dress, his first. --Jane Adams --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Pocket
Language
English
Pages
215

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Cover of: Devil in a blue dress
Devil in a blue dress
2017, Serpent's Tail
Paperback
Cover of: Devil in a blue dress.
Devil in a blue dress.
2002, Howes
in English - Large print ed.
Cover of: Devil in a blue dress
Devil in a blue dress: an Easy Rawlins mystery
2002, Washington Square Press
in English
Cover of: LE DIABLE EN ROBE BLEUE (SERIE NOIRE 1)
LE DIABLE EN ROBE BLEUE (SERIE NOIRE 1)
1996-01-12, GALLIMARD
Cover of: El demonio vestido de azul
El demonio vestido de azul
1994, Círculo de lectores
Cover of: Devil in a blue dress
Devil in a blue dress
1991, Pocket Books
in English
Cover of: Devil in a blue dress
Devil in a blue dress
1991, Pocket Books
in English
Cover of: Devil in a blue dress
Devil in a blue dress
1990, Norton
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Devil in a blue dress
Devil in a blue dress
1990, Pocket
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215 p.
Number of pages
215

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Open Library
OL24968436M
Internet Archive
devilinbluedres000mosl
ISBN 10
0671740504, 0671511424
ISBN 13
9780671740504, 9780671511425
OCLC/WorldCat
503256515

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