![]() ![]() Easy then leaves her early the next morning, only to be arrested by the LAPD. He goes home with them and has sex with Coretta while Dupree is asleep in the next room. ![]() Coretta says that she knows Daphne, but gives an incorrect address to Easy. ![]() Easy is sitting in a bar run by Joppy, a friend who is also from Houston, when a man named DeWitt Albright walks into the bar and offers him a job finding a young White woman named Daphne Monet, who is rumored to be hanging out in bars frequented mostly by African Americans, but where White women are allowed inside.Īt the bar, Easy meets two old friends, Coretta and Dupree, among many other people that he knew from his former life in Houston. Set in 1948, the story begins in the Watts area of Los Angeles, with Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, a Houstonian - from that city's Fifth Ward - who lost his job at an aviation defense plant in Los Angeles and is unable to pay the mortgage on his LA home. The text centers on the main character, Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, and his transformation from a day laborer into a detective. ![]() Walter Mosley at the 2007 Brooklyn Book Festival.ĭevil in a Blue Dress is a 1990 hardboiled mystery novel by Walter Mosley, his first published book. ![]()
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