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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... voice that should have warned her . ' Find something in the appointments section of The Times . ' Neil began to laugh and Wexford , his anger swiftly changed to pity , smiled sadly . Neil had been studying the situations vacant daily ...
... voice that should have warned her . ' Find something in the appointments section of The Times . ' Neil began to laugh and Wexford , his anger swiftly changed to pity , smiled sadly . Neil had been studying the situations vacant daily ...
Page 156
... voice what a French speaker's would be if he had lived till the age of thirty in , say , Casablanca , and the rest of his life in Aberdeen . ' Nothing else is to be expected when you are a child of the gutters of Alexandria ...
... voice what a French speaker's would be if he had lived till the age of thirty in , say , Casablanca , and the rest of his life in Aberdeen . ' Nothing else is to be expected when you are a child of the gutters of Alexandria ...
Page 285
... voice grew shrill . ' We know nothing about her . We've never had anyone working for us here but Juana and Rosenda and that Corazon who left and went home . I think it's awful this happening today . I will not have anything like this ...
... voice grew shrill . ' We know nothing about her . We've never had anyone working for us here but Juana and Rosenda and that Corazon who left and went home . I think it's awful this happening today . I will not have anything like this ...
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