Devil in a Blue Dress
Special | 26m 47s
by Walter Mosley
In 1948 in the Watts area of Los Angeles, a story begins with Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins out of work and unable to pay his mortgage. He's sitting in a bar run by Joppy, a friend from Texas, when a man named DeWitt Albright walks into the bar and offers Easy a job to find a young woman named Daphne Monet, a young white woman of the area.
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Dinner & A Book is a local public television program presented by PBS Michiana
Devil in a Blue Dress
Special | 26m 47s
In 1948 in the Watts area of Los Angeles, a story begins with Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins out of work and unable to pay his mortgage. He's sitting in a bar run by Joppy, a friend from Texas, when a man named DeWitt Albright walks into the bar and offers Easy a job to find a young woman named Daphne Monet, a young white woman of the area.
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