"The Black Tulip" novelist (5)
I believe the answer is:
dumas
'the black tulip novelist' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
This is all the clue.
(Other definitions for dumas that I've seen before include "Author of The Three Musketeers" , "French pair who wrote" , "Alexander ..... wrote ` `The Three Musketeers' '" , "French novelists, father and son" , "French novelist" .)