5/21/2023 0 Comments Mosley little green![]() Rawlins, drunk and behind the wheel of a car on the Pacific Coast Highway, passes three cars before swerving onto the shoulder to avoid a collision with a truck. After all, the woman he loved, Bonnie, had decided to marry an African priest. ![]() Perhaps it was time for Rawlins to depart. Rawlins had spent years solving murders, finding people and raising children left on his doorstep, all while dealing with the racism of post-World War II Los Angeles. Mosley, the author of more than 50 books of fiction and nonfiction spoke about “Devil in a Blue Dress” at the library as a part of the One Book, One Michiana community reading event that ends on Sunday. “I enjoyed it, but I felt that I was repeating myself.” “‘Blonde Faith’ was a very romantic novel in a way and I really liked that,” he said. ![]() ![]() Joseph County Public Library that he didn’t know where to take Rawlins, the black World War II veteran private eye whom the world first met in “Devil in a Blue Dress.” So after 11 Easy Rawlins novels since “ Devil in a Blue Dress” debuted in 1990, Mosley decided to allow Rawlins to have a fatal accident at the end of “Blonde Faith” in 2007. SOUTH BEND - At the end of the novel “ Blonde Faith,” Walter Mosley decided that Easy Rawlins, his most famous character, had to die. ![]()
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