Award-winning mystery writer Barbara Neely, who created what’s believed to be the first black female detective series in mainstream American publishing, has died following a brief illness, according to her publisher. She was 78.
Award-winning mystery writer Barbara Neely, who created what’s believed to be the first black female detective series in mainstream American publishing, has died following a brief illness, according to her publisher, Brash Books. She was 78.
“I realized the mystery genre was perfect to talk about serious subjects,” she told Ms. Magazine in 2000, “and it could carry the political fiction I wanted to write.” “If Toni Morrison wrote murder mysteries, they would probably read a bit like Barbara Neely’s,” the women’s general-interest websiteHer character White had an uncommon eye for detail and interpretation. Early in “Blanche Among the Talented Tenth,” White sees a magazine picture and thinks something is amiss.
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