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. Devil in a Blue Dress – Set in the late 1940s, in the African-American community of Watts, Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant.Most of the time, he is reluctant to take on cases, but even when he doesn’t have a choice, he does his best.Įvery book in the Easy Rawlins series works as a standalone story, but the lives of the different characters evolve from one novel to the other.
More precisely, Rawlins is a hard-boiled detective and World War II veteran from, Louisiana living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, from the 1940s to the 1960s.
Affiliate disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases from Amazon.ĭid you know Denzel Washington played Easy Rawlins in the Devil in a Blue Dress movie in 1995? Who is Easy Rawlins?Ĭreated by mystery author Walter Mosley, Ezekiel “Easy” Porterhouse Rawlins is an African-American private investigator.
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