Seth's review of Devil in a Blue Dress
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins Mysteries) by Walter Mosley
I read this book because I read an interview with this guy Colson Whitehead and he was asked how he figured out how to plot his novels and he said he'd read, like, ten Walter Mosley novels in a row and in that way figured out how to do plot. That sounded like a sound enough strategy and so I bought this for three dollars at a used-book store near my job. I liked how straight-ahead this book is. The plot just goes (although the specifics of what happened--who's dead, who's got information on who, who's hiring who to do what nasty business--sometimes confused me pretty good), and every ten pages or so, Mosley has his main man Easy have some kind of cutting, incisive, good insight about what it is to be a person. So it's 90 percent story and ten percent anti-matter. That balance = fast read, fun read. Lots of whiskey in this book, too.
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