Awards🏆Winner (1991) - Shamus Award - (1st Private Eye Novel)Contributor(s):Author: Walter MosleyDevil in a Blue Dress honors the tradition of the classic American detective novel by bestowing on it a vivid social canvas and the freshest new voice in crime writing in years, mixing the hard-boiled poetry of Raymond Chandler with the racial realism of Richard Wright to explosive effect. Review citationsLibrary Journal - 06/01/1990Publishers Weekly - 05/25/1990