Angie Brooks is an African American attorney who became famous for her controversial books about race and gender. She is best known for The Queen of Crime, a series of novels based on the life of fictional British private detective Manderley. She also served as an assistant attorney general during the Ford administration. Brooks has also written several books about public speaking and marriage. One book in this series is entitled: You Can Have Your cake and eat it too! In this book, Brooks tackles the question, “Can the Queen of Crime be both Scottish and African-American?” It is interesting to see how an American woman could play such a dual role of being both a Scottish and African-American.
In the third book of the series, Age of Rebellion, Brooks revealed that she has finally reconciled with her long-term partner, Dan Crawford. However, the Queen of Crime had somehow gained access to Crawford’s time and placed him under house arrest. When Brooks and her partner, Matt Murdock, go to rescue him, they find out that the Queen of Crime had secretly planted a time bomb inside of his rectum. When they return to warn the world of what the Queen meant to have been, Manderley is killed.
Age of Rebellion by Angie Brooks sheds new light on the debate over whether or not the Queen of England can be two different persons. If the Queen of England is really a woman of Scottish descent, then one could argue that she is two different persons, a Queen of Scotland and a member of the House of English. If she were really an African American, then she could easily be considered one of twelve slaves of Henry II of England. In the end, however, it is her original identity which matters most.