Daphne then offers Easy two thousand dollars to take her to Frank and tells him that she loves him.


Daphne and Easy make love all night. She also tells him the terribl… The book is Mosley’s first novel, as well as the first in a series featuring fictional detective Easy Rawlins.

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Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley takes place in Los Angeles following World War II.

Easy picks Daphne up from her motel and brings her to his Mexican friend Primo's house. Afterwards, Daphne fills Easy in on a lot of the plot, revealing that Richard has sold Teran his sex-slave, that Mr. Carter had pressured Teran out of the mayoral election when he learned about the sex-slave, and that Joppy murdered both Howard Green and Coretta. The main character, Easy Rawlins, has just been fired from his job at an airplane manufacturing plant. The novel follows Rawlins as he investigates the whereabouts of a mysterious woman named Daphne Monet … Devil in a Blue Dress is a 1990 detective novel written by Walter Mosley.