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Blanche Cleans Up

Barbara Neely

出版	Penguin Books, 1999
主題	Fiction / GeneralFiction / Mystery & Detective / GeneralFiction / Mystery & Detective / Women SleuthsFiction / African American & Black / GeneralFiction / City Life
ISBN	01402774719780140277470
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=SSdbAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Blanche White is a very black, middle-aged woman who cleans white people's houses for a living. Tart-tongued and shrewd, with a keen nose for trouble, she's also a queen-sized snoop - who sees at a glance what people are really up to - especially if it's criminal. It's been three years since she had to grab the kids and scurry out of Farleigh, North Carolina. Now they've all settled into life in the Roxbury section of Boston, and Blanche herself is feeling like she may finally be free to enjoy life - at least a little. But before Blanche can say, "Breakfast is ready, " she gets suckered into standing in as cook-housekeeper to one Allister Brindle, a Boston Brahmin politician, and his do-gooder wife. Blanche is quickly enmeshed in a festering canker of a scandal that moves from the Brindles' house (a.k.a. Prozac House) to her own black community as she tries to figure out the truth behind the swimming-pool death of a young black man who knew a little too much...