YA Mystery Authors of Color --------------------------- compiled by Lindy Howe (lindylh@yahoo.com), November 1999 from contributions to PUBYAC Laurence Yep's series set in San Francisco's Chinatown. The first titles are "Mystery of the Goblin Pearls" and "Mystery of the Lion Dancer". Virginia Hamilton's "The House of Dies Drear". Eleanora Tate's "The Secret of Gumbo Grove". Walter Dean Myers' Smiffy Blue, Ace Detective stories. Rosa Guy's Imamu Jones mysteries, one of which is "The Disappearance". John Shearer's Billy Joe Jive mysteries. Valerie Wilson Wesley's "Where Do I Go From Here?" and possibly her adult mysteries for the better readers. Eleanor Taylor Bland and Donald Goines are adult mystery writers, but possibly might do for the better readers. Check content.