"A good private-eye novel . . . is not really about violence; it's about the fallibility of people, about the grotesqueries of modern life, and not least it is about one man, the detective, who defines the moral order." This statement, from Washington Po...

BOB IVRY, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 04-22-2001 DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS -- IN TODAY'S POST-FEMINIST FILM DRAMAS, WOMEN HAVE LITTLE TO DO EXCEPT TAKE THE BLAME By BOB IVRY, Staff Writer Date: 04-22-2001, Sunday Section: YOUR TIME Edition: All...

In Carl Franklin's terrific Devil in a Blue Dress, Denzel Washington frequently appears in a sleeveless ribbed T-shirt, the better to reveal his meaty biceps and the tattoo he bears on the right. "Army," it reads. That's because Denzel is playing Easy Rawlins,...

When the world first met Easy Rawlins, he was 28. It was post-World War II Los Angeles — a city full of opportunity and without a long history — not a bad place to be for a smart, confident black man. Fired from his job,...

In the following essay, Wesley examines how Mosley both utilizes and expands upon the tradition of the hard-boiled detective genre in Devil in a Blue Dress.

In the following essay, Mason examines Devil in a Blue Dress in relation to the theories of the novel developed by George Lukác and M. M. Bakhtin.

In the following review, Dretzka praises Mosley's debut novel, Devil in a Blue Dress, and anticipates comparisons of the author's work to other black writers of the detective fiction genre.