Devil in a Blue Dress.
by Mosley, Walter
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0393028542
- ISBN 13
- 9780393028546
- Seller
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Langley, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Norton,, 1990.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. This copy of the first Easy Rawlins mystery is signed by Mosley. Set in the late 1940s, in the African-American community of Watts, Los Angeles, Devil in a Blue Dress follows Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran just 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.
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
- Gregor Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28580
- Title
- Devil in a Blue Dress.
- Author
- Mosley, Walter
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing of the First US Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0393028542
- ISBN 13
- 9780393028546
- Publisher
- Norton,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1990.
- Keywords
- Mysteries
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
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- Fine
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