Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)

Easy Rawlins takes an ostensibly simple tracking job to save his mortgage, only to discover how quickly white power brokers sacrifice black investigators. His persistence stirs up mayoral corruption and brutal police retaliation, placing his close friends and neighbours in immediate mortal jeopardy. Without the ruthless intervention of Mouse, Rawlins's naive gumshoe ambitions would have resulted in his own burial.