The Really Popular Book Club: Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley

Tue 30 July 2024

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The Really Popular Book Club is Cambridge University Libraries' book group. Everyone is welcome to come and discuss a really popular book with the group, library staff, and an expert on the novel. Hosted on Zoom, the book club is completely free and open to everyone, people attend from all over the world.

The Really Popular Book Club celebrates the huge range of books at Cambridge University Library. We have more than 8 million books and as a legal deposit library we keep a copy of every book published in the UK, and have done since 1710.

One of the first crime novels to centre an African-American protagonist, Devil in a Blue Dress – a hardboiled mystery set in Los Angeles in 1948 and introducing legendary private eye Easy Rawlins - inspired a generation of crime writers of colour and became a film starring Denzel Washington. With novelist and Chair of the Crime Writers' Association Vaseem Khan.

Cost: Free