Devil In a Blue Dress

“Easy” Rawlins is a 1940’s  African American detective featured in Walter Mosely’s epic Los Angeles crime novel which won a 1991 “Shamus Award” for the best PI Novel.

First in the prolific "Easy" Rawlins series written by living author, Walter Mosely. "Easy" is an African American pulled into detective work by economic circumstances who reluctantly takes a missing persons case involving a white woman named Daphne Monet. Rawlins is drawn into a maze of violence and duplicitous intrigue. "Devil in a Blue Dress" was adapted into a 1995 film starring actor Denzel Washington.