Black As He Is Painted

📂 Standards 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB

Tension mounts as Inspector Alleyn works against time to collar a vicious killer and avert a political holocaust, the repercussions of which would be felt around the world!

Black as He's Painted

✍ Marsh, Ngaio 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 🌐 UND ⚖ 136 KB

SUMMARY: Portrait of a murder...Superintendent Roderick Alleyn's old school chum-- whom his wife Troy longs to paint-- is now President of Ng'ombwana, a brand-new African republic. This handsome, charismatic dictator has enemies of every stripe: from ruddy-faced ex-colonists to new rivals, from disp

Black As He’s Painted

✍ Ngaio Marsh 📂 Fiction 📅 1999 🏛 St. Martin's Press 🌐 English ⚖ 153 KB 👁 2 views

SUMMARY: Portrait of a murder...Superintendent Roderick Alleyn's old school chum-- whom his wife Troy longs to paint-- is now President of Ng'ombwana, a brand-new African republic. This handsome, charismatic dictator has enemies of every stripe: from ruddy-faced ex-colonists to new rivals, from disp

Black as He's Painted

✍ Ngaio Marsh 📂 Fiction 📅 2015 🏛 Felony & Mayhem Press 🌐 English ⚖ 145 KB 👁 2 views

Ng'ombwana is a (fictional) African nation to have emerged in the wake of colonialism; as it happens, its President is Inspector Alleyn's old school chum, the "Boomer." Old school ties being what they are, the Boomer – making an official visit to London – insists that Alleyn handle his s

Black as He's Painted

✍ Marsh, Ngaio 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🌐 English ⚖ 136 KB

Black As He's Painted

✍ Marsh, Ngaio 📂 Fiction 📅 1974 🏛 HarperCollins Publishers 🌐 en-US ⚖ 536 KB

One of Ngaio Marsh's most popular novels, this time featuring one of her best creations -- Lucy Lockett, the crime-solving cat. 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 Superintend

Black As He Is Painted

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