When Easy finally does find Monet, he figures out that she has stolen a large amount of money from a man named Todd Carter, who is a local wealthy businessman.

Easy and Mouse find Monet with Albright and Joppy, who was revealed to have killed Coretta and Howard Green, someone who had been previously beaten to death.

Then Mouse reveals that Monet is actually Ruby, an African-American woman passing as White, and the sister of a local gangster named Frank Green.

[2] Literary scholars of ethnic detective fiction have explored these qualities by means of genre study and gender identity[3] approaches.

[5] Herbert Mitgang of the New York Times described it as "a little overplotted" but believed it "mark[ed] the debut of a talented author with something vital to say about the distance between the black and white worlds" and looked forward to the next book[6].

Devil In a Blue Dress was adapted into a 1995 film of the same name, which starred Denzel Washington as Easy Rawlins, and also featured Jennifer Beals, Tom Sizemore, Maury Chaykin, as well as Don Cheadle as the unhinged "Mouse".