Walter Mosley: Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)

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Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins Mysteries (Paperback))

Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins has few illusions about the world--at least not about the world of a young black veteran in the late 1940s in Southern California. His stint in the Army didn't do anything to dissuade him from his belief that justice doesn't come cheap, especially for men like him. "I thought there might be some justice for a black man if he had money to grease it," Easy says.... (read more)

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“Walter Mosley is quite possibly the best writer I have ever read. I was hooked immediately. The only beef I have with Mosely is that he ruined John D. MacDonald for me. Both series having colors in the titles, I read Mosley first, because at the time, his series only had five books (compared to JDM's 30 something). I read those five voraciously, and then read JDM's first, the Deep Blue Good-By... Well, see Deep Blue Good-By for more.”

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marykay said:

“The Washington Post Book Club presents an evening with ANN PATCHETT, author of Bel Canto and Run; ANDREA BARRETT, author of Ship Fever, The Air We Breathe; and WALTER MOSLEY, author of Fearless Jones, Devil in a Blue Dress, Blonde Faith.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 6:30 pm
The Washington Post Office, 1150 15 St. NW, Washington, DC
(Book signing follows)
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posted Saturday, October 20 2007

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