Book Review: Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley

A new hardboiled classic.

I haven’t read Walter Mosley’s latest novel, Everyman a King. I have read Devil in a Blue Dress which is his very first novel. I’m a lover of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Mickey Spillane, and when I read Mosley’s debut, I was walking down those same gritty streets that I love but with a guide who knew tricks the old masters didn’t.

Mosley’s no…