Black as He's Painted

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Black as He's Painted

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Format: Mass Market Paperback, 256pp.ISBN: 0312972792 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: December 1999 From her first book in 1934 to her final volume just before her death in 1982, Ngaio Marsh's work has remained legendary, consistently compared to that of Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham and Dorothy L. Sayers. During her celebrated fifty-year career, Marsh was made a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, named Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire, won numerous prestigious awards and penned 32 mystery novels. So sit back, draw the curtains, lock the doors and put yourself in the hands of the Grande Dame of detective novels . . . Superintendent 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