Devil in a Blue Dress
by Mosley, Walter
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0393028542
- ISBN 13
- 9780393028546
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
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Synopsis
Walter Mosley's very well-received first book, introduces detective Easy Rawlins and centers around his transformation from day-laborer to detective. Set in Los Angeles in the 1940s, Rawlins takes on a side job to pay his mortgage after losing his job at a defense plant. His first mystery is trying to find a woman named Daphne Monet, a missing white woman who was known to frequent black jazz clubs. Devil in a Blue Dress was adapted into a film of the same title starring Denzel Washington.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004880
- Title
- Devil in a Blue Dress
- Author
- Mosley, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0393028542
- ISBN 13
- 9780393028546
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York/London
- Date Published
- 1990
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature (Mysteries);
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