Devil in a Blue Dress
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Walter Mosley
"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."--Online description.
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Author
Walter Mosley
Pages
219
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Published Date
1990
ISBN
0393028542 9780393028546
Ratings
Google: 5
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"Easy Rawlins, a black war vet that was just laid off from his job, takes a gig as a private investigator and must locate a woman that hangs in black jazz clubs. What Easy doesn’t know is that finding Miss Daphne comes with a load of trouble. This is the first Walter Mosley novel I’ve read and I truly enjoyed it. I especially appreciated Easy’s development. He started out very green, not really knowing how to maintain a level of discretion that P.I. work entails but as the book goes on, he learns he needs to be more secretive about things. I would recommend this to someone who loves historical fiction (this book takes place in the 1940s) and is looking to ease into the mystery genre. I'm definitely going to keep reading the series!<br/>"
Keana Patterson