Blanche passes go / Barbara Neely.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neely, Barbara.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White, Blanche (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

White, Blanche (Fictitious character).

African American women--Fiction.

African American women.

Women detectives--Fiction.

Women detectives.

Caterers and catering--Fiction.

Caterers and catering.

North Carolina--Fiction.

North Carolina.

Genre:

Fiction.

Mystery fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 275 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Viking, 2000.

Summary:

Blanche White, the maid-cum-snoop extraordinaire, has had enough of Boston and returns to check things out back home in Farleigh, North Carolina. But the town holds demons for Blanche, including the man who once raped her, now implicated in the murder of a young girl.

Notes:

"First published in 2000 by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc."

"Set in Janson Text."

"Designed by Kathryn Parise."

"Jacket design by Martin Ogolter. Jacket illustration by Christopher Wormell."

Contains recipe for "Blanche's Gig from Hell Desert Sauce" (page [277]).

A Selection of The Mystery Guild.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0670891657

OCLC:

43296880