num_pages: 220
description: Devil in a Blue Dress honors the tradition of the classic American detective novel by bestowing on it a vivid social canvas and the freshest new voice in crime writing in years, mixing the hard-boiled poetry of Raymond Chandler with the racial realism of Richard Wright to explosive effect.
language: English
title: Devil in a Blue Dress
titlecomplete: Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
characters: Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, Raymond "Mouse" Alexander
genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, Thriller, Noir, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Historical Fiction, Crime, African American
ratings_count: 25986
places: Los Angeles, California
series: Easy Rawlins
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Shamus Award
category: Best First PI Novel, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: CWA New Blood Dagger, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best First Novel
publisher: W. W. Norton  Company