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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... morning , though , these reflections were nowhere . He was concerned only with himself , the fear , the horrid symptoms . Keeping calm , trying to be detached , he described them , the way he fell over when he got out of bed in the morning ...
... morning , though , these reflections were nowhere . He was concerned only with himself , the fear , the horrid symptoms . Keeping calm , trying to be detached , he described them , the way he fell over when he got out of bed in the morning ...
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... morning , over on the other . . . ' Burden began but was interrupted . ' All right , don't tell me . Don't you know a rhetorical question when you hear one ? I know who you are . You were trying to break into the house , or that's what ...
... morning , over on the other . . . ' Burden began but was interrupted . ' All right , don't tell me . Don't you know a rhetorical question when you hear one ? I know who you are . You were trying to break into the house , or that's what ...
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... morning had a scalding feel , and Burden said he'd known cooler steam come out of a kettle . Inside the car the air ... morning , he saw the " young chap " in the morning . I was just as much to blame , I let it go too . But , Mike , the ...
... morning had a scalding feel , and Burden said he'd known cooler steam come out of a kettle . Inside the car the air ... morning , he saw the " young chap " in the morning . I was just as much to blame , I let it go too . But , Mike , the ...
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