Product Details
Washington Square Press, September 2002
Trade Paperback, 272 pages
ISBN-10: 0743451791
ISBN-13: 9780743451796
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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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Chapter 1The New York Times A suspenseful novel of human detection more than simply a detective novel....[Mosley is] a talented author with something vital to say about the distance between the black and white worlds, and with a dramatic way to say it.
Los Angeles Times Book Review Richly atmospheric....Devil in a Blue Dress honors the hard-boiled tradition of Hammett/Chandler/Cain in its story line and attitude, but Mosley takes us down some mean streets that his spiritual predecessors never could have.... A fast-moving, entertaining story written with impressive style.
Associated Content, September 30, 2011
..._ It was 1998 when Willie asked me, "Who is your favorite author?" Without thinking, I replied, "Walter Mosley" because that is what I told anyone who cared to ask. I am not fond of that word: favorite. How can I say I like Walter Mosley ...
CNN, September 13, 2011
...Walter Mosley's private investigator Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins is moving from fiction to primetime. According to Deadline , NBC is developing a project called "Easy Rawlins," based on Mosley's best-selling ...
Zap2it.com, September 12, 2011
...20 years.The network has bought a pitch from executive producer John Wells for a show based on Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins novels, Deadline reports. The character, an African-American World War II vet-turned-private detective, has starred ...
Lakeland Ledger, August 31, 2011
...of race, and then (when he goes to Kenya), there are issues of identity of poverty. "Like with Walter Mosley and "Devil in a Blue Dress," he was able to seamlessly bring in African-American issues and issues of race and class." "I don't know ...
Channel 5 Belize, November 22, 2009
...other writers.' Past winners of the Best First Novel award include Dennis Lehane who wrote Mystic River and Walter Mosley, the author of Devil in a Blue Dress. Vasquez, meanwhile, is not resting on his laurels as his second novel-Lonesome ...
Columbus Dispatch, October 18, 2009
...idea of mixing mediums. "As a novelist, I would never ever" allow videos to substitute for prose, said Walter Mosley, the author of Devil in a Blue Dress and other novels. "Reading is one of the few experiences we have outside of ...
New York Times, September 30, 2009
...mixing the two mediums. ?As a novelist I would never ever? allow videos to substitute for prose, said Walter Mosley, the author of ?Devil in a Blue Dress? and other novels. ?Reading is one of the few experiences we have outside of ...
CNN, April 10, 2009
... Fans of the character Easy Rawlins don't want to hear it, but author Walter Mosley says he has officially moved on. The prolific writer seemingly wrapped up his beloved series -- which spawned the 1995 film 'Devil in a Blue Dress' starring ...
Bay State Boston Banner, April 8, 2009
...After retiring his most beloved character, best-selling scribe Walter Mosley is ready to roll with the new (Greg Morris photo) (Cover image courtesy of Riverhead Books) Denzel Washington portrays Ezekiel ?Easy? Rawlins in 1995?s ?Devil in a ...
CNN, April 6, 2009
... Fans of the character Easy Rawlins don't want to hear it, but author Walter Mosley says he has officially moved on. The prolific writer seemingly wrapped up his beloved series -- which spawned the 1995 film 'Devil in a Blue Dress' starring ...
Sun-Journal, March 28, 2009
...they are reunited as rivals vying to solve the mystery of a missing college student.'The Long Fall,' Walter Mosley. In his best work since 'Devil in a Blue Dress,' Mosley introduces Leonid McGill, a NYC private investigator learning the hard ...
Los Angeles Times, March 25, 2009
...Walter Mosley's new book, 'The Long Fall,' follows Leonid McGill, the 50ish African American son of a communist father, as he negotiates the troubles of mid-life in contemporary society. For ...
Los Angeles Times, March 24, 2009
...s tracking for a shadowy detective are being murdered one by one. ΒΆ Leonid McGill, the protagonist of Walter Mosley's new mystery, 'The Long Fall,' is a harried, middle-aged African American. He's nothing like Easy Rawlins, the Los Angeles ...
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White ButterflyThe police don't show up on Easy Rawlins's doorstep until the third girl dies. It's Los Angeles, 1956, and it takes more than one murdered black girl...Read More
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