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
2015, Felony & Mayhem Press
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Black As Heªs Painted: Library Edition (Alleyn Mysteries)
August 2001, Blackstone Audiobooks
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in English
- Unabridged edition
0786197048 9780786197040
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Black As Heªs Painted: Library Edition (Alleyn Mysteries)
August 2001, Blackstone Audiobooks
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in English
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0786120487 9780786120482
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Black as He's Painted
April 17, 2000, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
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0006512283 9780006512288
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Black As He's Painted (A Roderick Alleyn Mystery)
December 15, 1999, St. Martin's Minotaur
Mass Market Paperback
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0312972792 9780312972790
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Black As He's Painted
December 1990, G K Hall & Co
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074517227X 9780745172279
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Black as he's painted
1976, Aeonian Press, Amereon Press, Brand: Amereon Ltd
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0884114724 9780884114727
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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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