Blanche Among the Talented Tenth
by:
Barbara Neely (author)
The heroine of the top-selling mystery Blanche on the Lam--black domestic worker extraordinaire, accidental sleuth Blanche White--is enlisted to use her considerable wiles to discover the link between a suicide and a murder, and uncovers a web of secrets that someone may be willing to kill for.
The heroine of the top-selling mystery Blanche on the Lam--black domestic worker extraordinaire, accidental sleuth Blanche White--is enlisted to use her considerable wiles to discover the link between a suicide and a murder, and uncovers a web of secrets that someone may be willing to kill for.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140250367 (0140250360)
Publish date: September 1st 1995
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 232
Edition language: English
Series: Blanche White (#2)
2nd Blanche book. I liked this even better thanBlanche on the LamI guess it seemed more real, less like caricatures of rich people. This book makes you think. Not so much about the mystery part, which once again seemed incidental, but about all the issues Blance has to deal with. Like race, class, ...
A good read. I must admit to being totally unaware of the discrimination among African-Americans themselves based upon how light or how dark a person is.
I actually enjoyed this one more than the first, I think, because milieu was new to me.
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