"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 define...
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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 gen...
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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.
I was surprised to see a white man walk in...
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Diehl is an American columnist and critic. In the following review, he predicts Devil in a Blue Dress will whet readers' appetites for Easy Rawlins stories and lead to "a long, active ca...
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In the following essay, Lively examines Mosley's themes in Devil in a Blue Dress, A Red Death, and White Butterfly (collected in The Walter Mosley Omnibus) and their relation to his departure f...
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Mitgang is an American editor, author, and critic. In the following excerpt, he asserts that Devil in a Blue Dress "marks the debut of a talented author with something vital to say about the di...
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In the following review, Eckhoff notes that Devil in a Blue Dress suffers from some of the common weaknesses of the detective genre, faults she finds "troubling, but forgivably so."
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In the following review, Washington discusses Mosley's characters in Devil in a Blue Dress and concludes, "Together Mosley's people make an old-fashioned page turner."
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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.
“One should try to locate power a...
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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, confi...
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Walter Mosley
Critical Review by Gary Dretzka
Walter Mosley closes the book on Easy Rawlins after a decade
