Devil in a Blue Dress
263 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1990
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Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Publication date: 17 September 2002
Description
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.