Irene Marcuse Silver, mystery novelist, died on March 8 after a long fight with cancer.
Her books were mostly set on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, exploring "life among the city's disenfranchised without cloying sentimentalism or platitudes. At the same time, Marcuse has created a sleuth who is psychologically complex rather than a predictable instrument of discovery."
Her Anita Servi series included The Death of an Amiable Child (2000), Guilty Mind (2001), Consider the Alternative (2002) and Under the Manhattan Bridge (2004). She was a finalist for the Agatha Award in 2000.
She was the granddaughter of philosopher and political theorist Herbert Marcuse, author of Eros and Civilization and One-Dimensional Man.