Devil in a blue dress / Walter Mosley.
Devil in a Blue Dress, a defining novel in Walter Mosley's bestselling Easy Rawlins mystery series, was adapted into a TriStar Pictures film starring Denzel Washington as Easy Rawlins and Don Cheadle as 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781451612486
- ISBN: 1451612486
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Publisher: New York : Pocket Books, 1991, ©1990.
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General Note: | Electronic book. |
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Subject: | African Americans > Fiction. Noirs américains > Romans, nouvelles, etc. FICTION > African American > Mystery & Detective. African Americans. |
Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. Fiction. Mystery fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. |