Mosley Fan

Thank you, Walter Mosley, for an outstanding suspense thriller (“Having a ‘Devil’ of a Time; Adaptation of Mosley Novel Captures a Bygone L.A.,” by Kenneth Turan, Sept. 29). Thanks also for assuring that the story’s integrity has been maintained in TriStar’s film version.

I was especially glad to see accurate references made to this city’s history that are, too often, lost by our selective memories and our natural need to maintain positive and productive attitudes. (That is, those of us who are positive and productive.)

The portrayal of a predominantly black community where people do all of the same things and have all of the same dynamics and dysfunctions that perplex any other ethnic community was refreshing and uplifting.

Hopefully, we can all appreciate the good of those postwar years and leave to that period the conditions and “attitudes” that created the conundrum for Miss Daphne Monet.

CHARLES W. DIGGS JR.

Calabasas