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Devil in a blue dress : an Easy Rawlins novel

Call Number

  • MYSTERY MOSL (CEN)

Edition

First Washington Square Press/Atria Paperback edition.

Publication Information

New York : Washington Square Press/Atria, 2002.

Physical Description

219 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

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.