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Although Easy is the narrator as well as the main character, there is a very distinct difference between the narrative and the way he speaks.

He writes not only the noir style, but also the language of the streets incredibly well. Thanks to Mosley's style, however, there is that something a little extra here. I've always enjoyed the laid back style of the noir style thriller and Devil in a Blue Dress is no exception. He's not just having to deal with a mystery, but also with the casual racism of many of the people he encounters. This presents a major problem for Easy, as he's a black man on the streets of a predominantly white Los Angeles in 1948 and the cops are more than happy to pin any number of murders onto Easy to get both him and the crime figures out of their hair. Of course, what Albright doesn't mention is that the reason he's looking for this woman is that she's run off with a large amount of someone else's money and quite a few people on the streets of Los Angeles are prepared to kill to get that money back.Īt first Easy thinks he's on for a relatively simple job, but the people he asks about this woman start turning up dead soon after he's spoken to them. So when DeWitt Albright walks into Joppy's bar and offers him money for finding a young woman who has gone missing, it seems like the perfect opportunity for him to keep his house, as well as to pass some time. Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress certainly falls into this latter category.Įasy Rawlins is a little down on his luck, having just been laid off from his job and with a mortgage payment due. Not only have they released a great new author onto the world in the form of Dave Zeltserman, but they are also putting out reissues of some very good older titles.

Serpent's Tail is fast becoming one of my favourite publishing houses.

This is definitely one for fans of Raymond Chandler or similar.

Urn:oclc:809752633 Republisher_date 20120301005407 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120229145314 Scanner : An interesting noir style thriller with a different edge, particularly to the language. Urn:lcp:devilinbluedress00mosl_0:epub:887c88d9-22bc-4504-854f-aaeb3dfa42ad Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier devilinbluedress00mosl_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t50g4r26d Isbn 9780393028546Ĩ9013321 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL2203684M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:44:42 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA176801 Boxid_2 CH132807 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1st ed.