![]() ![]() Rawlins is a strong character, and it is easy to see how he quickly built into a series lead with a big following. ![]() Of course, it doesn’t help his attitude when the double crosses and misdirects start piling up soon. The suspicion of race cuts both ways in Easy’s world. When he takes a job working for a white man to find the missing girl in the titular blue dress, we see the world through Easy’s eyes, where rich and powerful white men are as dangerous and mysterious as black characters had typically been portrayed at the time. 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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