Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins Mysteries (Hardcover)) - Hardcover

Mosley, W

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393028542 ISBN 13: 9780393028546

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1990

Synopsis

Devil in a Blue Dress honors the tradition of the classic American detective novel by bestowing on it a vivid social canvas and the freshest new voice in crime writing in years, mixing the hard-boiled poetry of Raymond Chandler with the racial realism of Richard Wright to explosive effect.

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Review:

A first novel of astonishing virtuosity, upending Chandler's LA to show a dark side of a different kind (Sunday Times)

There is a splendid freshness to Mosley's prose and we sense that here is a real world we are hearing about for the first time (Financial Times)

To write five novels about a character as interesting and complex as Easy and never to flag, never to miss a beat, is pretty amazing (Guardian)

What makes Mosley so important in American literature is not just his ability to pen novels that grab you by the throat, but the way his heroes reflect the uncertainty, the fears, and the moral dilemmas of America (Daily Express)

Fr a writer who has the legacy of Chester Himes and more to live up to, Walter Mosley makes a distinctly confident start to his career (Time Out)

Mr Mosley makes us root for Easy Rawlins, a black knight-errant, and his lawless sidekick, Raymond Mouse Alexander, an armed and dangerous Sancho Panza (New York Times)

His Easy Rawlins novels are a series of perfectly balanced concoctions of lust, violence, politics and race. You crack a new one open knowing exactly what sort of pleasure is in store (Sunday Times)

Book Description:

Award winning first novel now with a new foreword by Val McDermid

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0393028542
• ISBN 13: 9780393028546
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224