Simisola (v.o.)Hutchinson, 1994 - 323 pages In an English town, Inspector Wexford investigates attacks on black women which lead to murder. A study of the slave-like condition of foreign domestics in Britain, who are not given the status of immigrants so they can be deported if they agitate for more money. |
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Page 101
... Snow . Waiting while a tape played ' Greensleeves ' , he thought about Snow and wondered how appalling a shock hearing who was calling him would be . Annette , after all , had been found dead on the previous Friday , it had been on ...
... Snow . Waiting while a tape played ' Greensleeves ' , he thought about Snow and wondered how appalling a shock hearing who was calling him would be . Annette , after all , had been found dead on the previous Friday , it had been on ...
Page 105
... Snow , and he'd be for the high jump . Freeborn would like this a lot less than newspaper photographs of merry - making . But it worked . Snow said , ' Sit down , please . ' ' Are you going to tell us about it , Mr Snow ? ' ' What is ...
... Snow , and he'd be for the high jump . Freeborn would like this a lot less than newspaper photographs of merry - making . But it worked . Snow said , ' Sit down , please . ' ' Are you going to tell us about it , Mr Snow ? ' ' What is ...
Page 138
... Snow denied it . It wasn't true , he said , and he had never told anyone it was . In the interview room he placed ... Snow sat with folded arms , his chin sagging against his chest . Wexford spoke into the device . ' Mr Bruce Snow , Mrs ...
... Snow denied it . It wasn't true , he said , and he had never told anyone it was . In the interview room he placed ... Snow sat with folded arms , his chin sagging against his chest . Wexford spoke into the device . ' Mr Bruce Snow , Mrs ...
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