Barbara Neely

Blanche White

1 - Blanche on the Lam (Feb-1992)
2 - Blanche Among the Talented Tenth (Sep-1994)
3 - Blanche Cleans Up (Apr-1998)
4 - Blanche Passes Go (Jul-2000)

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  Blanche on the Lam
  

  • Feb-1992
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  Blanche White - 1
  

  Keeping other people's houses clean can be murder... It's hard enough making ends meet on the pittance Blanche White earns doing day work for the genteel Southern families of North Carolina. But when her fourth bad check lands her a jail sentence,...

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  Blanche Among the Talented Tenth
  

  • Sep-1994
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  Blanche White - 2
  

  When Blanche White--domestic worker extraordinaire turned accidental sleuth managed to get her kids into a private school, she didn't know they'd be getting as much attitude as education. So she jumps at the opportunity to spend some time with them a...

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  Blanche Cleans Up
  

  • Apr-1998
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  Blanche White - 3
  

  The return of Blanche, an African-American woman who combines sleuthing skills with her working life, finds Blanche employed as a cook-housekeeper for an aristocratic Bostonian, involved in a potentially dangerous scandal surrounding a black youth's ...

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  Blanche Passes Go
  

  • Jul-2000
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  Blanche White - 4
  

  Tired of Boston and cleaning houses, maid-turned-sleuth Blanche White hads home to Farleigh, North Carolina, where she encounters the man who had once raped her and who is suspected in the murder of a young girl. By the author of Blanche Cleans U...

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Award-Winning Books by Barbara Neely

Blanche on the Lam
1992 Agatha Award -- First Novel
1993 Anthony Award -- First Novel
1993 Macavity Award -- First Mystery