Picked by Tom for March 27th Meeting
Devil in a Blue Dress,
a defining novel in Walter Mosley’s bestselling Easy Rawlins mystery
series, was adapted into a TriStar Pictures film starring Denzel
Washington as Easy Rawlins and Don Cheadle as Mouse.
Set in the late 1940s, in the African-American community of Watts, Los Angeles, Devil in a Blue Dress 
follows
Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense
plant. 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.
follows
Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense
plant. 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.
