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Black as He's Painted

✍ Scribed by Marsh, Ngaio

Book ID
107861222
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Year
2010
Tongue
UND
Weight
136 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0515036137

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✦ Synopsis

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 dispossessed businessmen to racist crackpots. But when a ceremonial spear deals death at his lavish embassy party in London, Alleyn must decipher the victim's last utterance and expose an assassin's true colors...

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