Black As He's Painted

About this book

Portrait of a murder... Superintendent Roderick Alleyns old school chum-- whom his wife Troy longs to paint-- is now President of Ngombwana a brand-new African republic. This handsome charismatic dictator has enemies of every stripe: from ruddy-faced ex-colonists to new rivals from dispossessed businessmen to racist crackpots. But when a ceremonial spear deals death at his lavish embassy party in London Alleyn must decipher the victims last utterance and expose an assassins true colors...