Status Updates From Marple: Twelve New Stories

so i’m listening to the short story “miss markle takes manhattan” and it uses the word “colored” and sort of implies that miss marple is a racist who can’t tell the difference between black people.
i’m horrified by both, to be honest, but when i looked to see who had written the story, it was alyssa cole-a black author. now i feel the same way i do when a song i like uses a slur- very uncomfortable.