Devil in a Blue Dress - 1st Edition/1st Printing by Mosley, Walter - 1990

New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1990. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0393028542 . A Fine first printing of the first edition in alike dust-jacket, signed by author Walter Mosley on title page; Walter Mosley's debut Easy Rawlins mystery. "The time is 1948; the town is Los Angeles; the hero is Easy Rawlins, a tough black war veteran just out of a job at a defense plant. The mortgage payment's coming due, so Easy takes on some detective work from a silkily menacing white gangster, Dewitt Albright. The assignment: find the whereabouts of blonde femme fatale Daphne Monet, a singer known to frequent black jazz joints not usually hospitable to white patrons." (from the dust-jacket) Basis for the 1995 film starring Denzel Washington; 8vo; [9], 10-219, [5] pages; Signed by Author .