Black As He's Painted

Name: Black As He's Painted
Brand: Hachette UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Ngaio Marsh
ISBN: 9781405532020

Author: Ngaio Marsh

Series: Inspector Alleyn #28

Narrator: Philip Franks

Unabridged: 8 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Published: 01/28/2016

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Crime

Synopsis

When the exuberant president of Ng'ombwana proposes to dispense with the usual security arrangements on an official visit to London, his old school mate, Chief Superintendent Alleyn, is called in to persuade him otherwise.
Consequently, on the night of the embassy's reception the house and grounds are stiff with police. Nevertheless, an assassin does strike, and Alleyn finds he has no shortage of help, from Special Branch to a tribal court - and a small black cat named Lucy Lockett who out-detects them all...

About Ngaio Marsh

Dame Ngaio Marsh was born in New Zealand in 1895 and died in February 1982. She wrote over 30 detective novels and many of her stories have theatrical settings, for Ngaio Marsh's real passion was the theatre. She was both actress and producer and almost single-handedly revived the New Zealand public's interest in the theatre. It was for this work that the received what she called her 'damery' in 1966.

Reviews

Goodreads review by John

SPOILERS AHEAD An unusual mystery with so few suspects. Sheridan the dubious tenant in the basement flat of Mr Whipplestone’s flat, the Chubb’s,the disgusting Sanskrit brother and sister or the drunken Colonel Cockburn-Montfort and his wife. Alleyn’s old school friend Boomer visits the UK. He is now......more

Goodreads review by aPriL does feral sometimes

If it wasn't for Mr. Whipplestone and Lucy Lockett, I'd give this one in the series two stars. Given our current environment of real terrorism plots, it is an interesting book and to some degree gave me a think on what if a neighbor lived next door that showed some signs of a being part of a conspir......more