'Devil In A Blue Dress'

Three Detective Novels

Each of these novels took placed in Los Angeles in different eras. “The Big Sleep” by Raymond Chandler took place in the 1930’s where The Great Depression was a prominent long lasting downturn in history, where workers were unemployed. The novel “Murder Is My Business” by Lynette Prucha took placed in the 1990’s which was considered the best era for economic growth. While the novel “Devil in a Blue Dress” by Walter Mosley is set in post-World War II, before the Civil Rights Movement. These three private detectives face a ton of difficulties upholding their morals, ethics, and beliefs while trying to best serve their clients, and doing everything in their power to perform their job in exchange for money.
The novel “The

Marino was at her office on a Thursday evening all alone finishing paper work when her office door open and it was Ramona Millicent Hunnicut who is a wealthy business woman who came to seek for Marino’s legal help. “The two-piece lamb’s wool suit smelled new and expensive” (473). Here is noticeable how detective Marino noticed her future client wealth by the lamb suit she was wearing. The way Ramona carries herself, with confidence, and smell nice, gives Marino a sense of expensiveness. On the other hand, Angie Marino is in debt by living a glamour life relying only in her credit line. Meanwhile Marino’s client Ramona is a married woman to whom Marino seem to be attractive since the minute Ramona walked into Marino’s law office. Marino implies that Ramona is attractive to

Izekiel “Easy” who is an African American man who is not a detective, but agreed to be a detective because he was in need of money to payed his mortgage. . “Mr. Albright seems especially white in Joppy's dark, dingy, black-populated bar.” Even though Mr. Albright reminds Easy of his black friend, Mouse, the white character comes to represent the power whites have over blacks. Mr. Rawlings as a detective went on to meet his client Mss. Daphne at her place. On the other hand, detective Rawlins’ client is portray as a middle class French lady with little or no taste for décor. Likewise, Rawlings is attracted to his client Daphne whose feeling is reciprocal for Rawlings. Segregation and racial tensions is noticeable during the post-World War II era before the Civil Rights Movement where explores the implications of race and racial