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Devil in a blue dress

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.

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  • "Devil in a Blue Dress"
  • "De witte vlinder"
  • "omnibus"
  • "Een rode dood"
  • "Devil in a blue dress"@tr
  • "Devil in a blue dress"
  • "Devil in a blue dress"@it
  • "Devil in a blue dress"@pl

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  • "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."@en
  • "The hero is Easy Rawlins just out of job at a defense plant takes on some detective work from a silkily menacing white gangster, Dewitt Albright. The assignment: find the whereabouts of the blonde femme fatale Daphne Monet, a singer known to frequent black jazz joints not usually hospitable to white patrons."@en
  • "Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins is a decorated war hero who returns home to work as a private eye. His job of finding a missing socialite puts him between the white power elite and the vibrant black commumnity of Central Avenue. As soon as Easy and his trigger-happy friend Mouse find Daphne Monet, trouble follows."@en
  • "Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins is a decorated war hero who returns home to work as a private eye. His job of finding a missing socialite puts him between the white power elite and the vibrant black commumnity of Central Avenue. As soon as Easy and his trigger-happy friend Mouse find Daphne Monet, trouble follows ..."
  • "Private detective Easy Rawlins looks for a gangster's girlfriend in 1940s L.A."
  • ""Easy Rawlins is fired from his factory job in 1948 and after working for a mobster, he finds that he has skills as an investigator"--NoveList."
  • "In a Los Angeles bar, "Easy" Rawlins, a black war veteran just fired from his job, wonders how he'll pay his mortgage. DeWitt Albright, a quietly vicious white man, walks in and offers Easy good money if he'll find Daphne Monet."
  • ""The time is 1948, the town is Los Angeles, and Easy Rawlins is 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." -- Back cover."@en
  • "Een zwarte oorlogsveteraan die in het Los Angeles van 1948 in opdracht van een onderwereldfiguur op zoek gaat naar een blonde schoonheid, komt hierdoor in conflict met gangsters, politie en politici."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Translations"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Motion picture plays"@en
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Detektivní romány"
  • "Americké romány"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "American fiction"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Powieść sensacyjna amerykańska"@pl
  • "Large type books"@en

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  • "DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS"
  • "Diabeł w błękitnej sukience"@pl
  • "Le Diable en robe bleue"
  • "De blauwe duivelin"
  • "Teufel in Blau : Roman"
  • "Devil in a blue dress"
  • "Devil in a blue dress"@en
  • "Mavi elbiseli şeytan = Devil in a blue dress"
  • "Démon v modrém"
  • "Devil in a blue dress : [an Easy Rawlins mystery]"
  • "Teufel in Blau Roman"
  • "Vrag u modroj haljini"
  • "Devil in a blue dress : an Easy Rawlins mystery"
  • "Le diable en robe bleue : roman"
  • "Djævel i blåt"@da
  • "藍衣魔鬼"
  • "Con quỷ áo xanh"
  • "Sinipukuinen paholainen"@fi
  • "Ho diavolos me to galazio phorema"
  • "Le diable en robe bleue"
  • "El Demonio vestido de azul"
  • "Mavi elbiseli şeytan"@tr
  • "Mavi elbiseli şeytan"
  • "Il diavolo in blu"@it
  • "Il diavolo in blu"
  • "Devil in a blue dress : [screenplay]"@en
  • "Devil in a blue dress : [screenplay]"
  • "Śmierć w błe̜kitnej sukience"
  • "A devil in a blue dress"@en
  • "Lan yi mo gui = Devil in a blue dress"
  • "Devil in a blue dress : [a screenplay]"@en
  • "Śmierć w błękitnej sukience"@pl
  • "Lan yi mo gui"
  • "De blauwe duivelin : omnibus"
  • "Teufel in blau : roman"@en
  • "Devil in a blue dress : an Easy Rawlings mystery"@en
  • "蓝衣魔鬼 = Devil in a blue dress"
  • "El demonio vestido de azul"@es
  • "El demonio vestido de azul"
  • "Devil in a blue dress an Easy Rawlins mystery"@en
  • "Devil in a blue dress : an Easy Rawlins mystery : [featuring an original Easy Rawlings short story "Crimson Stain"]"@en
  • "Devil in a blue dress : an Easy Rawlins mystery : [featuring an original Easy Rawlings short story "Crimson Stain"]"

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