Devil in a Blue Dress
Registered by Oldbroad of Grapeview, Washington USA on 11/2/2009
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
3 journalers for this copy...
"Named 'One of the 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century' by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association."
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
Released to the Mystery with a Twistery bookbox.
Released to the Mystery with a Twistery bookbox.
this one definitely looks appealing! might be one that creeps up the slope a bit instead of totally waiting it's turn~~
A great choice for this particular bookbox, as "Devil" is very much in the Hammett/Chandler vein, but with a very big twist~~the miliue is post WWII Watts!
from the cover:
Los Angeles, 1948; Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant. Easy is drinking in a friend's bar, wondering how he'll meet his mortage, when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Monet, a blonde beautyknown to frequent black jazz clubs.....
" [Mosley is[ a talented author with something vital to say about the distance between the black and white worlds, and with a dramatic way to say it."
---The New York Times
A very different book, for me, at least, and one I enjoyed. I'll be watching out for more Easy Rawlins mysteries~~
and cool cover art to boot!
from the cover:
Los Angeles, 1948; Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant. Easy is drinking in a friend's bar, wondering how he'll meet his mortage, when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Monet, a blonde beautyknown to frequent black jazz clubs.....
" [Mosley is[ a talented author with something vital to say about the distance between the black and white worlds, and with a dramatic way to say it."
---The New York Times
A very different book, for me, at least, and one I enjoyed. I'll be watching out for more Easy Rawlins mysteries~~
and cool cover art to boot!
I REALLY enjoyed this~hope you do too~~
adding to svoight's Mystery VBB
adding to svoight's Mystery VBB
The book arrived safely in Austin (as a part of the mystery VBB). Thank you Erishkigal. :)
Very Hammett/Chandler indeed, hard-boiled in the old-fashioned way. A nice holiday read too...
Released 12 yrs ago (7/6/2011 UTC) at Bodega Brew Pub in La Crosse, Wisconsin USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Reads that are finished while holidaying travel before I get back home, so Mosley will now continue its journey in Bodega... Let's see where it ends up next :)
Safe journey little book - I hope you'll make many new friends on your travels!
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Safe journey little book - I hope you'll make many new friends on your travels!
"Don't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologize to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read... "
— Neil Gaiman
To the finder of this book:
Hello and congratulations! You have not only found yourself a good book, but a whole community of booklovers dedicated to sharing books with each other and the world at large. I hope you'll stick around a bit and get to know BookCrossing --maybe even make a journal entry on this book. You may choose to remain anonymous or to join (its free!)
Feel free to read and keep this book, or to pass it on to a friend or even set it out "in the wild" for someone else to find like you did. If you do choose to join and journal, then you can watch the book as it travels- You'll be alerted by email each time someone makes another journal entry. It's all confidential (you're known only by your screen name and no one is ever given your e-mail address), free, and spam-free. Happy reading!
