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Rating: Summary: Devil in a Blue Dress Review: Book Review for Devil in a Blue Dress By Walter Mosley Kristen Shepard Montgomery High SchoolThis is one of the best mystery books that I have read. I have never read any of Mosley's works so lets just say that he made a good first impression on me. I've always been interested in the spy/investigative books so that is what brought me to read Devil in a Blue Dress. The setting is Los Angeles in the 1940's and Easy Rawlins, the main character and a private eye, is a black veteran. He was just fired from his job at the aircraft factory and he can't pay mortgage for the home he loves. Joppy Shag is the owner of an illegal bar and is friends with Easy. My favorite character was Dewitt Albright. " His grip was strong but slithery, like a snake coiling around my hand" (p.2). Dewitt is friends with Joppy too, and is a white attorney/thug, who needs someone to find this white woman named Daphne Monet. Daphne is known to patronize the black jazz clubs. Dewitt asks Easy to do this search. Things aren't exactly going to well for him and he needs all the money he can get, so he accepts the deal. As he gets deeper in the case more and more bad things start happening; for example people start showing up dead. Easy decides to call a good friend who still lives in Easy's hometown, Huston. His name is Mouse and he was probably the worst thing to do at that time for Easy since he has been killing quite a few people. Somehow Easy is being blamed for some of the murders and if he can't find out who has been killing all these people then he can be sent to death row. There is still the problem of finding Daphne and what he finds out is that she isn't all that she seems to be, for she is in love with a very wealthy man named Mr. Carter and tries to be something she's not. When investigating Easy finds that he has the talent for questioning people in a way of getting the info he needs, take for example him and Mr. Carter, a man with a lot of power. Soon he finds himself talking to all sorts of rich white men like they were best friends. Still, being black in a white-ruled society heads him to information that he might not otherwise be able to obtain, even if the reason is degrading. This book was great. It made me another one of the many Walter Mosley fans and I am in the process of choosing between "A Red Death" and "White Butterfly" as the next Easy Rawlins mystery to read. I recommend this book to anyone who is at all interested.
Rating: Summary: Top Notch P.I. Novel Review: Ever wanted a one-sitting read guaranteed to keep you engrossed up to the very end? Well, look no further than Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress. A fast paced mystery jam packed with characters, details and events, you will forget you are reading at all. Set in the seedy streets of Los Angeles during the late 1940's, our main character is the reserved, thoughtful black war veteran Easy Rawlins. A man in limbo between what he has done and where his life is going, fate provides a little help by introducing Mr. DeWitt Albright. Mr. Albright is white, powerful, dangerous, relentless and most importantly merciless, qualities that send Easy bad impressions from the start. Easy's suspicions turn out to be correct signaling to the reader both that Easy has a natural intuition but also that he will be up against potentially fatal obstacles every step of the way. Mosley does not disappoint in either arena. Albright's mission for Easy is to locate a Miss Daphne Monet, a woman whose beauty is only matched by her mystery. It is in fact Daphne who ends up locating Easy early on, a sign that the mystery involves much more than a simple search. As the body count rises and Easy finds himself in suspicion of the crimes, we learn that the tale is all about the former nobody attempting to both extricate himself from the forces against him as well as discover who in fact is responsible. Easy is a true example of an everyman blessed with a talent for detection and cursed with a tendency to associate with the "wrong crowd." Hazardous for him, but fascinating for us. Reading Devil in a Blue Dress will give you an appreciation for the racial tensions of the times, man's capabilities when trying to survive and a woman's ability to turn a whole city upside down.
Rating: Summary: Mosley's debut is a winner Review: Set in post-war Los Angeles, Walter Mosley's debut novel Devil in a Blue Dress is a riveting story that makes you want to read the whole series. Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran who wants nothing more than to pay his mortgage on time. This is difficult because he has been recently fired from his job at an airline factory. He thinks that his problem has been solved when a white man offers to pay a fair sum of money for him to locate Daphne Monet, a young white woman who likes to frequent black bars. But when two people are murdered, including his friend Corretta, he must do his best to save Daphne and himself. Mosley has stunning descriptions of Los Angeles that put you into the book. You can hear the characters talking when you read the dialog. I couldn't put Devil in a Blue Dress down. It it is perfect for mystery lovers or those just looking for a good entertaining book.
Rating: Summary: Absolutely Amazing! Review: This book is truly a masterpiece. The characters are amazing and the story is great. This is the kind of book that you can visualize in your head, you can see every scene occuring. I read this book in one sitting, I couldn't put it down. From the begining to the end--perfection!
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