Devil in a Blue Dress : An Easy Rawlins Novel

Walter Mosley
WASHINGTON SQR PRESS
9780743451796
0-7434-5179-1

Devil in a Blue Dress, a defining novel in Walter Mosleys bestselling Easy Rawlins mystery series, was adapted into a TriStar Pictures film starring Denzel Washington as Easy Rawlins and Don Cheadle as.

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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.