Easy Rawlins series
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The Easy Rawlins series is a collection of hardboiled detective novels by Walter Mosley featuring Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, a Black private investigator navigating crime and racial tensions in mid-20th-century Los Angeles.
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Target entity: Easy Rawlins series Context triple: [Walter Mosley, notableSeries, Easy Rawlins series]
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Detective D.D. Warren series
The Detective D.D. Warren series is a popular set of crime thrillers by Lisa Gardner featuring a tough Boston homicide detective who investigates complex, often dark and psychologically driven cases.
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Harry Bosch series
The Harry Bosch series is a collection of crime novels by Michael Connelly featuring LAPD detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch as he investigates complex, often morally ambiguous cases in Los Angeles.
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Women's Murder Club series
The Women's Murder Club series is a popular crime thriller book franchise co-created by James Patterson that follows a group of women professionals in San Francisco who team up to solve complex murder cases.
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Heat of the Night
"Heat of the Night" is a rock song by Bryan Adams, best known as the lead single from his 1987 album *Into the Fire*.
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Devil in a Blue Dress
Devil in a Blue Dress is a 1995 neo-noir mystery film starring Denzel Washington as private investigator Easy Rawlins, adapted from Walter Mosley’s novel of the same name.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Easy Rawlins series Target entity description: The Easy Rawlins series is a collection of hardboiled detective novels by Walter Mosley featuring Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, a Black private investigator navigating crime and racial tensions in mid-20th-century Los Angeles.
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A.
Detective D.D. Warren series
The Detective D.D. Warren series is a popular set of crime thrillers by Lisa Gardner featuring a tough Boston homicide detective who investigates complex, often dark and psychologically driven cases.
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B.
Harry Bosch series
The Harry Bosch series is a collection of crime novels by Michael Connelly featuring LAPD detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch as he investigates complex, often morally ambiguous cases in Los Angeles.
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C.
Women's Murder Club series
The Women's Murder Club series is a popular crime thriller book franchise co-created by James Patterson that follows a group of women professionals in San Francisco who team up to solve complex murder cases.
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D.
Heat of the Night
"Heat of the Night" is a rock song by Bryan Adams, best known as the lead single from his 1987 album *Into the Fire*.
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E.
Devil in a Blue Dress
Devil in a Blue Dress is a 1995 neo-noir mystery film starring Denzel Washington as private investigator Easy Rawlins, adapted from Walter Mosley’s novel of the same name.
- F. None of above. chosen
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linked to: Easy Rawlins series
Devil in a Blue Dress
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Easy Rawlins, an unemployed World War II veteran in 1948 Los Angeles, becomes a private investigator when he is hired to find a missing woman, Daphne Monet.
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linked to: Easy Rawlins series