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Detective Miller
Detective Mason is Detective Miller’s junior partner. Short and plump, Mason’s quick temper and frequent use of racial slurs paint him as a man with little self-control or empathy. Easy likens him to a “trained mutt,” observing how Mason blindly follows Miller’s lead. Mason and Miller confront Easy twice, questioning him without any solid evidence. Though Mason’s physical intimidation and racial epithets speak to his eagerness to abuse his position of power, his reliance on Miller’s direction ultimately underscores his lack of independent thought or strategy.
Detective Mason Quotes in Devil in a Blue Dress
The Devil in a Blue Dress quotes below are all either spoken by Detective Mason or refer to Detective Mason. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 26 Quotes
Most beautiful women make me feel like I want to touch them, own them. But Daphne made me look inside myself. She’d whisper a sweet word and I was brought back to the first time I felt love and loss.
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Detective Mason Character Timeline in Devil in a Blue Dress
The timeline below shows where the character Detective Mason appears in Devil in a Blue Dress. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 10
...White men in a parked black Ford approach him. Introducing themselves as detectives Miller and Mason—Miller seemingly the more senior partner—they strongarm Easy into accompanying them to the police station, where...
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Chapter 22
...him only to worry about following Frank. Leaving Easy’s, they’re confronted by detectives Miller and Mason, who want to question Easy further. Mouse lies about his identity, saying his name is...
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Although Miller and Mason suspect Easy knows more about the murders of Coretta, Richard McGee, and Howard Green than...
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