Black as He's Painted Mass market paperback - 1984
by Ngaio Marsh
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- Title Black as He's Painted
- Author Ngaio Marsh
- Binding Mass Market Paperback
- Edition Later Printing
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 223
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1984
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0515076279I3N00
- ISBN 9780515076271 / 0515076279
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 5 x 7 x 1 in (12.70 x 17.78 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects England, Detective and mystery stories
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94115128
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
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...
First line
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.