Download or read book Black As He's Painted written by Ngaio Marsh and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-12-15 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The charismatic president of Ng'ombwana in Africa has enemies of every stripe--from ex-colonists to new rivals, from dispossessed businessmen to racist crackpots. But when a ceremonial spear deals death at the president's lavish embassy party in London, Superintendent Roderick Alleyn must decipher the victim's last utterance and expose the assassin.