Blanche cleans up
Blanche cleans upBarbara Neely

Blanche cleans up (1998)

Barbara Neely

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In Boston, PI Blanche White, the snooping black maid, goes to work for an aspiring state governor, just in time to be in on a murder. As she investigates, Blanche makes known her views of white politicians who suck up to so-called black leaders.

ISBN:
9781941298435
Length:
282 pages

Genres: mystery

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Barbara NeelyWhen Blanche White moved north to Boston, she believed it would be a better place to raise her kids, especially after she got them into an elite private school. But now her children are becoming elitist and judgmental, acquiring more attitude than education. So when she and her kids are invited to Amber Cove, an exclusive resort in Maine for wealthy blacks, Blanche jumps at the chance to see how the other half lives and maybe stop her kids turning into people she doesn’t want to know. When one of the guests kills himself, and another is electrocuted in her bathtub, Blanche becomes an accidental detective once again, using her sharp wit and keen social insight to peel back some disturbing color and class distinctions within the black community that may have driven someone to murder.

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