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 83
... woman friend . It sounds a very lonely life . Ingrid Pamber seems to have been the only person she was friendly with . ' ' Yes , but would the Winster woman know ? She hadn't seen Annette since April . That would be understandable if ...
... woman friend . It sounds a very lonely life . Ingrid Pamber seems to have been the only person she was friendly with . ' ' Yes , but would the Winster woman know ? She hadn't seen Annette since April . That would be understandable if ...
Page 113
... woman with a basket of shiny dark red fruit , a young man a little over twenty putting a ladder up against a cherry tree , did a little more to damage this image of wooded countryside . Wexford was sur- prised to identify the woman as ...
... woman with a basket of shiny dark red fruit , a young man a little over twenty putting a ladder up against a cherry tree , did a little more to damage this image of wooded countryside . Wexford was sur- prised to identify the woman as ...
Page 124
... woman shouting and he turned round . This was the first instance of ' trouble ' there had been since they began calling at the Benefit Office . The woman , fat and unkempt , was complaining to Wendy Stowlap about a lost giro and Wendy ...
... woman shouting and he turned round . This was the first instance of ' trouble ' there had been since they began calling at the Benefit Office . The woman , fat and unkempt , was complaining to Wendy Stowlap about a lost giro and Wendy ...
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