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Walter Ellis Mosley is an American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction. He has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries featuring the hard-boiled detective Easy Rawlins, a black private investigator living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California; they are perhaps his most popular works. In 2020, Mosley received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, making him the first black male to receive the honor.

Devil in a Blue Dress ( 1995) | IMDb: 6.8

Crime , Mystery , Thriller

In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.

Starring:

Denzel Washington , Tom Sizemore , Jennifer Beals , Don Cheadle , Maury Chaykin , Terry Kinney

Directed by:

Carl Franklin

Produced by:

Edward Saxon , Victoria Thomas , Thomas A. Imperato

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