Devil in a blue dress (1995)
Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, a decorated war hero who returns home to the segregation of post-war America. Forced to accept an under-the-table job finding a missing socialite, Easy is caught between the white power elite and the vibrant black community of Central Avenue. And as soon as Easy and his trigger-happy friend Mouse find the mysterious Daphne Monet, trouble follows.
T-Bone Walker’s “Westside Baby” plays on the jukebox as Easy takes a final drag off his cigarette and stubs it out. THE FRONT PAGE of the LOS ANGELES TIMES lies face up on the table beneath the ashtray displaying A PHOTOGRAPH of a middle-aged white man and his pretty young woman companion smiling and waving.
Devil in a blue dress, by Carl Franklin adapted from the novel by Walter Mosley (1990)