Query: 1990 American crime novels
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Devil in a Blue Dress
Stardust (Parker novel)
Get Shorty
Sweet Women Lie
Postmortem (novel)
Stardust (1990 novel)
Mystery (novel)
Evidence from documents: Devil in a Blue Dress: '''''Devil in a Blue Dress''''' is a 1990 hardboiled mystery novel by Walter Mosley, his first published book.
The text centers on the main character, Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, and his transformation from a day laborer into a detective.


Set in 1948, the story begins in the Watts area of Los Angeles, with Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, a Houstonian — from that city's Fifth Ward — who lost his job at an aviation defense plant in Los Angeles and is unable to pay the mortgage on his LA home. Easy is sitting in a bar run by Joppy, a friend who is also from Houston, when a man named DeWitt Albright walks into the bar and offers him a job finding a young white woman named Daphne Monet, who is rumored to be hanging out in bars frequented mostly by African Americans, but where white women are allowed inside.
Get Shorty: Get Shorty''''' is a 1990 novel by American novelist Elmore Leonard.
Sweet Women Lie: 1990: The book is set in Detroit, Michigan and was first published in 1990.
crime novels: '''''Sweet Women Lie''''' is a crime novel by Loren D. Estleman.
American: The book is set in Detroit, Michigan and was first published in 1990.
Postmortem (novel): ''Postmortem'', Patricia Cornwell's first novel, was published in 1990 following advice from editors at Mysterious Press to dump the then-male central character and to expand the character of Kay Scarpetta. The novel was a major success and won numerous literary awards.
Stardust (1990 novel): '''Stardust''''' is a 1990 crime novel by crime writer Robert B. Parker,
Mystery (novel): '''''Mystery''''' is a 1990 novel by American author Peter Straub, and is the second installment in Straub's loosely connected "Blue Rose Trilogy". The novel falls into the genre of crime fiction, and was preceded by ''Koko'' and followed by ''The Throat''. The book was published by Dutton, won the 1993 Bram Stoker Award and was a 1994 WFA nominee
In the 1950s, Tom Pasmore is a young boy who lives on Mill Walk, a Caribbean island mostly inhabited by wealthy American and German expatriates