Blanche White Books

Certain that she will be blamed when someone turns up dead in the house where she works, Blanche White, a middle-aged domestic worker, turns sleuth to find the true criminal

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 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 demise. Reprint. 35,000 first printing. Tour.

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 Up. Reprint.