#1 Easy Rawlins

Devil in a Blue Dress

Walter Mosley
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In Los Angeles of the late 1940s, Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran, has just been 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.
Genres: MysteryFictionCrimeNoirMystery ThrillerHistorical FictionThrillerAfrican AmericanDetectiveHistorical
263 Pages

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