SimisolaRandom House Large Print, 1995 - 488 pages In the quiet Sussex country town of Kingsmarkham, the daughter of Nigerian physician Raymond Akande is missing. "It's probably nothing," says Dr. Akande to his friend and client Chief Inspector Wexford, whose help he enlists.
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... round and round in my head . I've even started wondering if we'll ever have her body . I never could understand that , those people who lost sons in war and craved their their remains . Or just wanted to know where they were buried . I ...
... round and round in my head . I've even started wondering if we'll ever have her body . I never could understand that , those people who lost sons in war and craved their their remains . Or just wanted to know where they were buried . I ...
Page 367
... round for an hour in the evening and then not hearing a word for a week and then a phone call and another bang - bang , thank you very much , sir . He did take me out but only once in a blue moon . I didn't want him permanently ei- ther ...
... round for an hour in the evening and then not hearing a word for a week and then a phone call and another bang - bang , thank you very much , sir . He did take me out but only once in a blue moon . I didn't want him permanently ei- ther ...
Page 413
... round the waist with a jew- eled cummerbund . Her long black hair was fastened onto the top of her head , where it sprouted in fronds rather like the top of a frost- blackened carrot . " Do sit down . " She waved a vague hand at the ...
... round the waist with a jew- eled cummerbund . Her long black hair was fastened onto the top of her head , where it sprouted in fronds rather like the top of a frost- blackened carrot . " Do sit down . " She waved a vague hand at the ...
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