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 86
... looked carefully at Annette Bystock's music on a shelf of the bookcase , the compact discs for the missing CD player , the cassettes for the missing cassette player which was also a radio . Her taste seemed to have been for popular ...
... looked carefully at Annette Bystock's music on a shelf of the bookcase , the compact discs for the missing CD player , the cassettes for the missing cassette player which was also a radio . Her taste seemed to have been for popular ...
Page 123
... looked as if he worked out with weights , for his body was lean and hard and he had no need to flex his bare arms to ... looked like him . If it was true , and here was Vine absurdly confirming it , it said a lot for the old man's powers ...
... looked as if he worked out with weights , for his body was lean and hard and he had no need to flex his bare arms to ... looked like him . If it was true , and here was Vine absurdly confirming it , it said a lot for the old man's powers ...
Page 288
... looked up and looked straight at me . ' It was the last visit he would pay to Oni Johnson . She had nothing more to tell him . By her openness she had saved herself and next day she would leave Intensive Care for a room to be shared ...
... looked up and looked straight at me . ' It was the last visit he would pay to Oni Johnson . She had nothing more to tell him . By her openness she had saved herself and next day she would leave Intensive Care for a room to be shared ...
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