![]() What sets it apart, and what garnered Mosley the praise and attention for his debut novel twenty-six years ago, is the setting in a post-WWII Los Angeles and the pressure cooker race relations surrounding the action.Įasy Rawlins is a proud and unapologetic black man, at a time when he and his friends are being marginalized and ghettoized in an increasingly stratified late 1940s L.A. In his debut outing, Devil In A Blue Dress, Rawlins arrives fully formed.Īt its heart, Devil is a classic find-the-girl mystery. ![]() Since his introduction in 1990, Easy Rawlins has been the star of more than a dozen novels by MWA grandmaster Walter Mosley. Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley is the 1st book in the famed Easy Rawlins series. ![]()
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