Bettie's Books

bookshelves: fraudio, published-1992, mystery-thriller

Now to watch the film, it's cued up on the player so it's feet up with popcorn time. Whee!




Walter Mosley's thriller, read by Paul Winfield.

Devil in a Blue Dress is a 1990 hardboiled mystery novel by Walter Mosley, the first of his mystery novels featuring Easy Rawlins, a black private detective in post-World War II Southern California.

The novel addresses issues of race and gender, as well as the post-war condition of black Americans. The plot follows Rawlins as he has been hired to find a woman who is involved in a brewing political scandal.

The book was adapted into a 1995 film of the same name, which starred Denzel Washington as Rawlins, and also featured Jennifer Beals, Tom Sizemore, Maury Chaykin, and Don Cheadle as the unhinged "Mouse".


First broadcast in 2009 on BBC Radio 7.

This is a superb book, superbly rendered by Winfield, with Billie Holliday's Blues are Brewing playing at the close of each section:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWtUzd...
Now to look for that film.

Los Angeles, 1948: 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 Money, a blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs....