Black As He's Painted
by Ngaio Marsh
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When the exuberant president of Ng'ombwana proposes to dispense with the usual security arrangements on an official visit to London, his old school mate, Chief Superintendent Alleyn, is called in to persuade him otherwise.Consequently, on the night of the embassy's reception the house and grounds are stiff with police. Nevertheless, an assassin does strike, and Alleyn finds he has no shortage of help, from Special Branch to a tribal court – and a small black cat named Lucy Lockett who out-detects them all...
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Fiction, Fiction in English, Mystery, Police, Roderick Alleyn (Fictitious character), Large type books, Alleyn, roderick (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, England, fiction, Murder, Investigation, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Crime, fictionPlaces
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Black As He's Painted
December 1990, G K Hall & Co
Hardcover
in English
- Large Prnt edition
074517227X 9780745172279
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"The year was at the spring and the day at the morn and God may have been in his Heaven but as far as Mr Samuel Whipplestone was concerned the evidence was negligible."
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